"You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be as an artist, not knowing. That actually leads you to ask questions, and it continuously feeds itself."

-- Leonardo Drew

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“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”
“When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has increased the fund from which he may draw for new figural developments. In other words, as the background of his experience becomes more diversified, it also becomes potentially more harmonious with a whole range of happenings.”

Source : Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
“In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife. Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere. Her hands fashion its beauty. Her heart makes its love. And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be the light, the joy, the blessing, the inspiration of a home.”
“To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.”
“I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.”
“Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.”
“I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.”

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