"If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length."

“We each survive in our own way.”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2012). “The Assassin and the Underworld: A Throne of Glass Novella”, p.122, A&C Black

“The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

“Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.”

Source : William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.26, Courier Corporation

“I want the viewer to be overwhelmed. I want the space to feel like it is caving in on the viewer and that they are forcibly entering the world of my paintings. I want there to be a feeling of overpowering decadence to the work, that is almost too much to take. I don't want them to be subtle.”

“I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media. That ensures your longevity as an artist and prevents you from getting bored with yourself and, hopefully, prevents people from getting bored with you.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com

“The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.”

Source : Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

“There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.”

Source : Source: onlineathens.com

“I've got to play in front of people. If I'm not moved, how can they be moved.”