"The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need."

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Source : Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

Mark Rothko

#Needs Quotes #Unexpected Quotes #Revelations Quotes

“Keep moving forward, even one or two steps, in your own way. Those who live out their lives to the fullest, unperturbed by the noisy clamor around them, are the true winners.”
“I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.”
“I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you don't have to be factually accurate. You can kind of construct some awesome strawman arguments in your fictional world.”
“Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.”
“Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.”
“I love good food. For me, that means lots of green juice, salad, and good dark chocolate.”

Source : "Stephanie Ellis on being vegetarian, human trafficking, and taking ownership of your life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.”
“Burn brightly without burning out.”

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