"I think when you're younger and making things, it's something that you have to fight through, to finish things. I feel like I'm past that stage, and I get the appreciation for being in that moment, and soaking it in."

-- Tavares Strachan

#Appreciation Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Past Quotes

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”
“The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.”
“True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.”

Source : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”
“I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.”

Source : "Tipper Gore Details Depression Treatment" by Ceci Connolly, www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 1999.
“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”
“Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.”

Source : Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.27, Courier Corporation
“The Western music tradition is mostly addressed to a public that has a critical mind, and judges the quality of the writing, of the interpretation. And I think it is a great tradition! It pushes the musicians to always go further, and to never stop pushing the limits and explore what can be done with sounds. And great pieces of art were born from that tradition.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double of mine... what they're really doing is barely getting by and helping me sell 1,000 paintings a year effortlessly, because they make my paintings look like such a bargain. Thank you to all the egotistical art students!”

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