"If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist."

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Roger Ballen

#Artist Quotes #Trying Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.”
“The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.”
“It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.”
“Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.”

Source : Sam Shepard (1984). “Fool for Love and Other Plays”, Dial Press
“(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.”
“An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.”
“I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively.”
“The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.”

Source : Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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