"Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work."

-- Lawrence Durrell

#Artist Quotes #Raw Materials Quotes #Materials Quotes

“Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.”
“Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.”
“You can't rob a bank on charm and personality,”

Source : Willie Sutton, Edward Linn (2004). “Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber”, p.111, Broadway Books
“Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.”
“I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.”
“The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward”
“You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.”

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