"I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can't think of what that would be."

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Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 09, 2013.

John Baldessari

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.”
“Now, Friends, deal plainly with yourselves, and let the eternal Light search you, and try you, for the good of your souls. For this will deal plainly with you. It will rip you up, and lay you open, and make all manifest which lodges in you; the secret subtlety of the enemy of your souls, this eternal searcher and trier will make manifest. Therefore all to this come, and by this be searched, and judged, and led and guided. For to this you must stand or fall.”
“An interior is the natural projection of the soul.”
“... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.
“When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.”
“Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.52, BoD – Books on Demand
“The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.”
“My mind soarsand whirlsin a danceof wild fearand graceful hope.”

Source : Margarita Engle (2010). “The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba”, p.135, Macmillan

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