"Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide."

-- Donald Woods Winnicott

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“I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.”
“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.”
“We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.”
“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
“Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.”
“By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1.”
“I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for the same jobs. I realistically didn't expect to become a teacher, and after two or three years, I accepted defeat.”

Source : "Lambchop". Interview With Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2008.
“Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.”

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