"When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had any inkling of its great possibilities, nor of the thorny yet successful road it was to take. As so often happens in life, we had stumbled across a vein of gold without knowing it."

-- George Grosz

#Morning Quotes #Successful Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.”
“I think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it click on a larger scale.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.”
“The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.”
“There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of responsible statesmanship. I think that is a misconception, the idea that Lincoln knows what's possible and the abolitionists don't.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.”
“You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.”
“I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.”

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