"Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself."

-- James Nares

#Art Quotes #Giving Quotes #Effort Quotes

“How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that no means yes if you know how to spot it?”
“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.”
“A lot of it comes from tiny things, like not eating barbecue sauce with my pizza at two in the morning. I think it's all a manifestation of being happy and wanting to treat myself well. The truth is, I'm not getting up an hour earlier and walking on a treadmill. I have the greatest workout partner in the world. And you don't need a gym membership for that kind of workout.”

Source : "A Mighty Heart: Jason Sudeikis Dishes on Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 17, 2013.
“I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.”
“Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.43, Penguin
“A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!”
“Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.”
“Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.”

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