"Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind of a safe haven for me. Creating art is not only a comfort zone, but also a way of speaking to my passions."

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Jerry Pinkney

#Art Quotes #Passion Quotes #Safe Haven Quotes

“People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.”
“If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, "Hey, look at my body," why would a guy want to get to know you?”
“Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!”
“What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.”

Source : "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.
“Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of oneâ€™s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.”
“The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.”
“It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. â€œI would never have that horrible old couch in my room,â€ you say. But your own old couch is every bit as bad and you are not disgusted with its appearance; it is your friend, you see, and you remember it when it was new and smart. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.”
“The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.”

Source : John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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