"A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't."

--

Russell Hoban

#Baby Quotes #Art Quotes #Philosophy Quotes

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
“The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.”
“I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.”
“In the course of our eternal existence, we spend infinitely more time in the spirit world on the other side than we spend in the human world on earth.”

Source : Sylvia Browne (2004). “Visits from the Afterlife”, p.82, Penguin
“Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial,Â initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it â€“ although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.”

Source : Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“Love is love! People should be able to do whatever makes them happy!”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 21, 2009
“At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.”
“Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.”

You may also like:

Alan Garner
Novelist
Arnold Lobel
Author
Harrison Birtwistle
Composer
Judith Viorst
Author
Margaret Wise Brown
Writer
Michael Rosen
Novelist
Quentin Blake
Cartoonist
Robert McCloskey
Writer
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator