"I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to be fixed, you know, an itch to be scratched. I was in that studio trying my best to feel content with myself. I had, like, a stipend. I had a place to sleep. I had a studio to work in. I had nothing else to think about, you know. And that's - that was a huge luxury in New York City."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Art Quotes #New York Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Tis true, my form is something odd but blaming me, is blaming God, Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you.”
“Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.”
“Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.”
“The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. That's something I really wanted to get out there right away.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.”

Source : James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.270, Anchor
“It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.”

Source : Richard Paul Evans (1997). “The Letter”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.”
“I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.”

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