"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."

-- Howard Hodgkin

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Energy Quotes

“I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.”
“What do you hang on the walls of your mind?”
“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”
“It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.”

Source : "Straw 'very sorry' over shooting", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2005.
“Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.”
“Fowl never tastes as savory when you're hungry for venison.”

Source : Lynn Flewelling (2010). “Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series”, p.167, Spectra
“God knows I'm a workaholic.”
“To fly or not to fly, that's the question.”

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