"I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow."

-- Siegfried Sassoon

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“Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.”
“When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot.”

Source : Source: www.artzip.org
“It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.”
“When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.”
“All I had was a CD with beats. I wrote to every beat on that CD, and when I got off punishment, I put out my first mixtape. I passed it out all around school. I started going to the studio. I started doing shows.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.”
“On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.”
“Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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