"If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours."

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James Elkins

#Artist Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Important Quotes

“The camera is the least important element in photography.”
“This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?”

Source : Song: Long Live Palestine, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle
“I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.”
“Sometimes I worry that thereâ€™s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that Iâ€™m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I wonâ€™t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if thatâ€™s what senility is.”
“It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.”
“I have to live my life, and it is the only one Iâ€™ll ever have.”
“The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states).”

Source : "Judge Napolitano Rips "Massive, Stalinistic-Like Use Of Force" In Nevada Ranch Standoff" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 24, 2014.
“I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire!”

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