"Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance."

-- Francois Truffaut

#Humility Quotes #Men Quotes #Design Quotes

“Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.”
“Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.”

Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
“Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!”
“In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.”
“Massie's frindship is something that has to be earned. Not because she's beautiful or popular but because she's loyal.”
“Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.”
“I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?”
“Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own...No matter what.”

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