"For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms â€œsuccessâ€ and â€œfailureâ€ had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding oneâ€™s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things."

-- Paul Auster

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“The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“Didn't we talk about this?" "HAIL!" "That isn't an answer." I planted my hands on my hips. "Was there a reason for shoving the gummy bears off the counter? Did they tell you they were suicidal? On second thought," I raised a hand, palm out, "don't answer that. If the candy is talking, I don't want to know.”
“I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.”

Source : Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”
“For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.”
“On the whole, it seems to me that probably the American press is doing a better job of this mediation, so to speak, between the people and the administration than the press of any other country.”
“I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.”
“people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character”

Source : Chad Kultgen (2009). “The Lie: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

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