"Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others."

-- Hettie Jones

#Art Quotes #Self Quotes #Desire Quotes

“We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.”
“I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.”
“I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.”
“Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.”
“God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1956). “The Red Priest”, London, Methuen
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes. Nuclear devices activated, and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs, like paste into strings into paste again, and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. And when the machine stops, time was an illusion that we created free will.”
“We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.”
“Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.”

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