"A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together."

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Bill Viola

#Art Quotes #Together Quotes #Just Being Quotes

“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”

Source : "1Q84: Books 1 & 2". Book by Haruki Murakami, May 29, 2009.
“I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care.”

Source : Song: Old Enough to Know Better
“As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood.”
“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
“Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.”
“Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies] are present, fundamentalism will churn out antibodies to keep the population under control and prevent mutations from getting out of hand.”

Source : "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.
“I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.”
“So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.”

Source : Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, “How The Leaves Came Down”

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