"All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area."

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Source : 1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.

Alexander Liberman

#Art Quotes #Torture Quotes #Solitary Quotes

“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”
“I always play women I would date.”
“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
“It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.”
“From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.”

Source : "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.
“Depends on the evening. A good red wine is nice in cold weather. A Claret or a Rioja. I've got a good gin we make from damson plums. And you can't beat a glass of champagne every now and again.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.”

Source : "The 'I Am' Q&A". www.cnbc.com.
“The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.”

Source : John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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