"It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision."

-- Matthea Harvey

#Vision Quotes #Artistic Quotes #Artwork Quotes

“Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.”
“I want everybody to feel he has a chance to get into a game when he comes to the ballpark. I play guys when I want to so they'll be ready when I have to. I don't consider myself a motivator of players. I think it's an insult to a ballplayer to have to be motivated.”
“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, Iâ€™ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think itâ€™s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasnâ€™t picked out, Juliet wasnâ€™t picked out. You donâ€™t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.473, Everyman's Library
“Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.”
“Some people take fashion very seriously....but thatâ€™s not right... Fashion should be fun!”
“Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?”
“If you love people enough, they will give you everything.”
“Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting”

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