"I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist.""

-- Adrian Tomine

#Artist Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library
“I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged.”
“My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.”
“And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.”
“I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.”
“I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.”
“Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.”
“How can you have a reasonable debate with people who are constantly changing the panic? They are moving the panic to a greater wave of hysteria?”

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