"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art."

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Source : Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

Bliss Carman

#Art Quotes #Work Quotes #Self Quotes

“I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an ***** is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal.”
“For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.”
“This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.”
“I donâ€™t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, â€˜Why donâ€™t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?â€™ And I always say, well, when you say that, youâ€™ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, thatâ€™s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodateâ€¦”
“It is infamy to die, and not be missed.”

Source : Carlos Wilcox (1828). “Remains of the Rev. Carlos Wilcox ...: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.207
“When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.”
“The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.”

Source : Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com
“She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”

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