"A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something."

-- Wayne Thiebaud

#Long Quotes #Attention Quotes #Pay Quotes

“People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.”
“Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.”
“The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.”
“I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.”
“Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.”
“The happy do not believe in miracles.”
“Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.”
“There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement.”

Source : César Aira (2009). “Ghosts”, p.64, New Directions Publishing

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