"There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it."

-- Jim Shaw

#Art Quotes #War Quotes #Self Quotes

“Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.”

Source : "Burger Queen" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.
“Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.”

Source : "Emmy, Vol. 9", published by Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, 1987.
“Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.”
“I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.”
“Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.283, New York Review of Books
“Fresh and clarifying, cool and refreshing, Lucite Green has a minty glow. Light in weight and also in tone, Lucite Green seems almost transparent.”
“You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor”
“It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.”

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