"Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gerald Stern

#Believe Quotes #Artist Quotes #Caves Quotes

“When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.”

Source : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.”
“I believe it is dangerous to think that the more extreme forms of censorship are more worthy of our attention. If we put all our effort into looking for the splinter in Turkey or China's eye, we may fail to recognise the plank in our own.”
“It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.”
“I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.”
“Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile.”
“It's not my duty as an architect to look at it”
“1. Your heart starts hurting when you think about him.”

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