"Art movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. I also think that it gives artists something, a way of kind of processing. My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world. Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn't there that can reach other folks and help them to process"?"

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Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

Morgan Parker

#Art Quotes #Hard Times Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.”
“I don't doÂ eventÂ dressing, becauseÂ every day is an event.”
“The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.”
“But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.”
“The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1910, Delphi Classics
“Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.”
“Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.”
“A fraudulent vote is a stolen vote. It steals a vote from the thin air and nullifies the legal and legitimate vote of a tax-paying citizen, whose rights to a fair election shouldnâ€™t be tampered with. Winning an election is important, but winning it honestly is imperative in a Constitutional Republic.”

Source : "Huckabee: Is asking for voter ID really 'too much'?" by Mike Huckabee, www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2012.

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