"If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing"

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Glenn Gould

#Cutting Quotes #Artist Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.”
“Things don't always happen the way we planned. As we learn to trust in God's plan, we will see that He has our best interests at heart.”

Source : "A conversation with Carolina Hurricanes goalie Dan Ellis". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. March 2013.
“I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.”

Source : M. M. Kaye (2015). “The Sun in the Morning”, p.138, St. Martin's Griffin
“If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.”
“... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act.”

Source : Christer Kihlman (1990). “The blue mother”
“I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history of painting. But I'm also interested in the moment we live in. I love television, and movies, and books, and music. So I also think of art as this cultural production along with all this other stuff that's happening. So that's a kind of postmodern, not media-specific, but the times, what is your art relevant to this moment we live in versus media specificity? That's my teaching philosophy, both of those things are important.”
“In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.”
“My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.”

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