"Having a background in doing printmaking and letterpress, I think that I became very interested in images that were flat and graphic. And my painting still today is very flat...American craft is like that too -- the painting is very flat. And also the painting that you see on the storefronts, handmade signs, tend to be very flat. That's probably my biggest influence..."

-- Margaret Kilgallen

#Thinking Quotes #Crafts Quotes #Today Quotes

“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.”
“I don't want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year's resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I'm trying.”
“Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.”
“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression”
“Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.”

Source : "It's a Macy, Macy world" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2001.
“A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.”
“I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.”
“I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.”

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