"Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels."

-- Derrick Jensen

#Dog Quotes #Desert Quotes #Forests Quotes

“I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.”
“I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.”
“I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.”

Source : Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.263, Library of Alexandria
“I think you can tell the difference between "swagger" and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.”
“Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.”
“I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.”
“I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.”

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