"I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Chantal Joffe

#People Quotes #Paint Quotes #Never Change Quotes

“The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.”
“That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group.”
“Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?”
“So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.”
“Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.”
“Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground”

Source : "Fullmetal Alchemist". Manga by Hiromu Arakawa, 2001 - 2010.
“When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.”
“Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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