"I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not."

-- Amy Sillman

#Painting Quotes

“The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.”
“You know how theres always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? Im not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.”
“If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.”

Source : Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”
“We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.”

Source : Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1830.
“A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.147, Open Road Media
“When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?”
“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”

Source : David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.26, Da Capo Press

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