"As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing..."

-- Eugene Delacroix

#Fear Quotes #Roots Quotes #Evil Quotes

“Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.”
“Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.”
“Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.”
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?”
“Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.”
“There's something to be said for giving and helping to change people's lives.”
“The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.”
“When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.”

Source : LeRoy Neiman (1974). “Art & lifestyle”

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