"What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?"

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Source : Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, Knopf

Robert Hughes

#Art Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”

Source : "Francis Picabia, Trouble Maker" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2016.
“I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.”

Source : "Mary McCormack Talks In Plain Sight". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 20, 2009.
“Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWWâ€¦Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!”
“Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.”

Source : C.E. Murphy (2012). “Raven Calls”, p.132, Harlequin
“Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.”
“Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.”

Source : Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster
“The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.”
“He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 583), 1895.

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