"A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]"

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Artist Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.”
“We are the market, we know what we want.”
“Every job built my career in some way or made me grow as a person or I got to meet someone great. I had one line on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but I met Will Smith and he took 20 minutes out of his day to talk to the kid with one line. To this day, I think that guy is amazing because of that.”
“A lot of people are actually surprised when I do open up my mouth and smile a little bit, and crack a joke and drink a beer.”
“It was really exciting to see how Bridesmaids was accepted and how well it did.”
“I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.”
“I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible.”

Source : Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang
“The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.”

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