"How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?"

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Artist Quotes #Doe Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.”

Source : Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Hair is another name for sex.”
“The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.”
“I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.”
“Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.”
“Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.”
“Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.”
“One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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