"The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."...So, what breaks your heart?"

-- Jonathan Carroll

#Heart Quotes #Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.”
“The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life”
“Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.”
“If everyone was the same, it would be boring as sh*t”
“I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.”
“I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.”
“When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.”
“Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.”

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