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I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.

Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.20, Ignatius Press

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.106, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.274, Thomas Nelson Inc

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

"Africa's Own Cannes Festival / Lots of enthusiasm, dearth of funds for black cinema" by Tina Susman, www.sfgate.com. March 4, 1995.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

Winston Churchill (1955). “The World Crisis”

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.3, Jaico Publishing House

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Gathering Storm: Book 12 of the Wheel of Time”, p.569, Hachette UK

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

Rex Stout (2010). “Murder by the Book”, p.194, Bantam

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.159, Open Road Media

Mere abuse is no criticism.

P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.606, Simon and Schuster

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation

Nathan Irvin Huggins (2011). “Black Odyssey”, p.13, Vintage