"Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?"

-- John Ruskin

#Dirty Quotes #Pay Quotes #Pleasant Quotes

“Be the trouble you want to see in the world.”

Source : "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,
“The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.”
“Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic”
“All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.”

Source : James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”
“And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding”

Source : Allan Aubrey Boesak (1987). “Comfort and Protest: Reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos”
“Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.382, Anchor
“Every time I see the sunshine in the bright blue sky, I cannot help but think how blessed I really am to see another day. There are so many who may have not woken up to see it but I have been blessed.”

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