"Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have"

-- Alonzo King

#Art Quotes #Intuition Quotes #Form Quotes

“I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant. I mean there's nothing better than working for the people - for the common people and being a public servant, and I have seen this.”
“Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.”
“Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.”

Source : "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.
“To be totally without stress is to be dead.”
“If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe”
“As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.”
“We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going to now celebrate and jubilate in the death of Bin Laden, I have to say, I think that comes eerily close to mimicking the likes of the Islamists. And that gives me the creeps.”
“Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.”

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