"Die to self: die to criticism, die to praise."

-- Lee Roberson

#Criticism Quotes #Praise Quotes

“I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.”
“In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.”

Source : Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.5, Vintage
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.”
“Sever the edge between before and after.”

Source : Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc
“I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.”
“My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done.”
“I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!”

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