"The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

John Lurie

#Trying Quotes #Painting Quotes

“As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.”
“Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!”
“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.”
“Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.”
“When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.”
“Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”

Source : Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.424, Penguin
“I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.”
“Dream impossible dreams. When those dreams come true, make the next ones more impossible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Urijah Faber from Jan 29, 2013

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