"You are the one and only ever you."

-- Nancy Tillman

“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
“The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home.”
“I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.”
“The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts, acquired by rule, results in sterile inventory. To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood.”
“I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.”

Source : Personal Blog, January 15, 2007.
“All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.”

Source : "Some Notes on Caravaggio". "Nimbus" Magazine, 1956.
“When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.”
“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.”

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