"I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual aspect. Painting is a spiritual practice, but sometimes it is hard to give up control!"

-- Pat Steir

#Spiritual Quotes #Art Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Strength lies not in defence but in attack”
“I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.”
“The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.”
“This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.”

Source : William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”
“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”
“My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United? I donâ€™t play for money. I play for glory and winning championships. Iâ€™m happy here. I hear people complain about the weather, thereâ€™s nothing to do and the food. But, for me, itâ€™s not like that. I play for a club I love, the biggest club, and everything else doesnâ€™t matter.”
“It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story or a justification to tell you, which I never considered valid because there is not an excuse for violence.”

Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com
“Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.”

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