"I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration."

-- Alton Tobey

#Artistic Quotes #Exploration Quotes #Realism Quotes

“We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which a nation-wide usury rises like a Golem (a created monster) with a million hands on a million throats, to choke the honor and the freedom-of-movement of a hard-working people.”
“Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.”
“A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.”
“I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.”
“In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people 'manage' everyone else. The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.”
“Production is something Ive never come to terms with.”
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”
“I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.”

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