"I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer."

-- Robert Motherwell

#Opposites Quotes #Trying Quotes #Painting Quotes

“If those who oppose Freethought did not strive to force all to think as they do, accept Christ by faith, believe the bible to be infallible, keep Sunday as a holy day, and work for a future reward, then our fight would be at an end instantly. Liberty of Conscience is all we ask - not control of any class, creed, or sect.”
“The art of life is to show your hand.”
“Some things we must pass over in silence.”

Source : Greg Iles (2006). “Turning Angel: A Novel”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
“I meet all these American filmmakers that film for months and months, and it's a mystery to me. I couldn't make a film like that. I have to be very clear in what I'm doing and where it's going, and be very disciplined about what I film.”
“We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.”
“Whatever you have committed wrong in the past or whatever you used to think of the future, the present becomes divine. And that divine present is the ocean of joy of which you are the part and particle. Just enjoy that.”
“Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard!”

Source : "Meet the Bearded Drag Queen Who’s Taking Europe by Storm" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. May 9, 2014.
“No one will do it for you.”

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