"I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art."

-- Jeff Koons

#Art Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.”

Source : Forbes Watson, Mary Cassatt (1932). “Mary Cassatt”
“Iâ€™ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A Kingâ€™s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.”
“You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.”
“Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips, it might powerfully melt, sweeten, and ravish our hearts! Remember, brethren, a holy calling never saved any man, without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. We must be judged by the same gospel, and stand at the same bar, and be sentenced to the same terms, and dealt with as severely as any other men.”
“I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.”
“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”
“We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.”
“We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.”

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