"Beauty only gets attention, but personality captures the heart."

“In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.”

“Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

“I love challenging the status quo.”

“After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.”

“I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.”

“That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.”

Source : Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (2006). “Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee”, p.128, BOA Editions, Ltd.

“I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.”

“The corporate system is fully psychopathic, and any creative people who enter into business with any of these organizations come up against a lifetime of issues. You just deal with it as you go along. It'll keep on happening until people reorganize the organizations.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com