“Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment.”– William Shakespeare Related Quotes “Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”– Pablo Picasso “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.”– Mahatma Gandhi “Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”– Miguel de Unamuno