"Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, new possibilities that will excite audiences and continue to excite them."

-- Brian Boyd

#Artist Quotes #Trying Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
“The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time”
“So much of courtship is the unspoken.”
“We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.”
“The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.”

Source : "Making It Better for Today’s LGBT and Questioning Youth" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2012.
“My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.”
“Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.”
“You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.”

Source : Michael Dibdin (2008). “Medusa”, p.187, Faber & Faber

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