"I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully."

-- Robert Metcalfe

#Writing Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.”

Source : "Artist Chuck Close Talks About Corruption On The Art Market". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.
“The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.”
“Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.”
“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.”
“This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.”
“IÂ presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.”
“The church is in the hope business.”
“Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”

Source : "From Protest to Resistance" (p. 5), May 1968.

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