"Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?"

-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Artist Quotes #Looks Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.”
“In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.”
“If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.”
“Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar,”
“I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.”
“I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.”
“New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.”

Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
“The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.”

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