"I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire."

-- Ilona Andrews

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“If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.”

Source : Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167
“Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.”
“Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.”
“I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.”
“I believe in the person I want to become”

Source : "Ride". Video clip, "Born to Die" album deluxe edition, www.youtube.com. October 12, 2012.
“You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.”
“We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.”
“The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.”

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