"When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate."

-- Jean-Paul Riopelle

“The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.”
“Ambition beats genius 99% of the time”
“I don't intentionally make deep movies.”
“I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.”
“The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.”
“Layer by layer art strips life bare.”

Source : Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.44, Archipelago
“When experts say nuclear power generation is safe and doesn't cost much and this is the only way to go if we want to stop relying on coal, well, we believe them. But they've been lying to us for years. And the point is, we've never really known anything about nuclear power generation. We had little interest in it before 3/11, and we certainly had no idea how difficult it is to control nuclear energy.”
“In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.”

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