"I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Mick Farren

#Morning Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Crow Quotes

“I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.
“The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.”
“Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.”
“Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain the water they drink lest they inadvertently cause the death of any micro-organisms - could never believe that he would be indifferent to the sufferings of domestic animals caused by their slaughter of food”

Source : Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco
“Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.”
“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.”

Source : Anne Hollander (1993). “Seeing Through Clothes”, p.444, Univ of California Press
“Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.”

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