"If you want to be an artist, you have to know that art is an ongoing practice, that you're part of a long line. Take this test: if someone offered you a billion dollars, but you could never draw another illustration or write another word, would you take it? If you reject it, you need to find another way to pay the bills, but you're still an artist."

-- Nicole Georges

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Long Quotes

“Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.”
“Every lover is a soldier.”
“Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right.”

Source : Song: New Shoes, Album: These Streets, 2006
“I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.”

Source : Anne Hébert, Alan Brown (1975). “Poems”, Don Mills, Ont. : Musson Book Company
“Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.”
“I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.”
“Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.”
“The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.”

Source : John Woolman (1847). “A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...”, p.84

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