"The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even look at them, and then they have to show something that holds that interst - and naturally they have to be presentable, just as a song has to be sung well, otherwise people run away. One mustn't underrate this quality, and I have always been delighted when my pieces have also appealed to the museum guards, the laymen."

-- Gerhard Richter

#Running Quotes #Song Quotes #Art Quotes

“A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,”
“One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to express that in our press photos. And it's one of the themes of the album [Modern Vampires of the City] as well.”
“God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.”
“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

Source : "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.
“I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.”
“I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.”

Source : "Interview with Hal Linden TV Star, "Song & Dance Man", Hearing Aid Wearer". Interview with Dr. Beck, www.audiologyonline.com. May 23, 2005.
“The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot”
“As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.”

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