"Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure..."

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Source : Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

Willem de Kooning

#Art Quotes #Peaceful Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.”
“At 50 you now have realized ?Getting old isn't fair? And that it's hard to make a comeback ?When you haven't gone anywhere”
“A lot of people think I'm naturally confident. I am not naturally confident!”
“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

Source : 1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.
“I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.”
“What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?”
“I'm obsessed with food!”

Source : "Sofia Vergara Spills All: The Smurfs and Modern Family Star Opens Up About Being a Young Mom and Surviving Divorce and Cancer". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. August 16, 2011.
“The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.”

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