"Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default."

-- David Salle

#New York Quotes #Years Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“When I grew older and went my own way, MMA kind of stuck with me. I got to the point where I wanted to make something of it. I always thought fighting was fun, so I joined a gym and took it serious. I never actually thought I would be a real fighter, though. But I began to excel on the local circuit and I did well for myself.”
“The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement”
“I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.”

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“Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.”
“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”
“Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.”
“The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up the fundament of Gwyneth Paltrow or Jennifer Lopez.”
“And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So Iâ€™m not narrating a particular story. Iâ€™m just addressing experiences.”

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