"Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation"

-- Mark Linkous

#Artist Quotes #Our Generation Quotes #Generations Quotes

“The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.”
“Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?”
“The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.”
“The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going.”
“I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?”
“As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!”
“On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame”
“In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.”

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