"The thing is, if people get it right away, I just don't think you're making art. I think you're making something they're comfortable with. You have to challenge people. You know, it has to be new. It has to be something they haven't seen before. Just bring them something they haven't seen before. They aren't going to love it right away because they haven't seen it before. So they have to take a minute, you know?"

-- Lori Petty

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“We have a centrist nationalist group of people in this country, lots of them, and we have a socialist group of people in this country, lots of them. And that's not, to me, the American idea.”
“Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.”
“I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.”
“Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.”
“This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.”
“The future belongs to the educated.”
“We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.”
“Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.”

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