"I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it."

-- Keren Ann

#Art Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.”

Source : Melanie Benjamin (2011). “The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel”, p.23, Delacorte Press
“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.”
“What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.”
“In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”
“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me itÂ´s just the contrary. Often itÂ´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didnÂ´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”
“Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.”
“I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.
“She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.”

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