"That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think thatâ€™s bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that theyâ€™ll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person."

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Source : Chevy Stevens (2011). “Still Missing”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com

Chevy Stevens

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“The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, 1990.
“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”
“Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.”
“If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.”
“Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words....”
“Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.”
“So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.”
“We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.”

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