"My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it."

-- Joan Miro

#Bird Quotes #Mind Quotes #Way Quotes

“I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.”
“I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.”
“We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.”

Source : Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann
“Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing comics reminds me of my days as a journalist, working on a staff of fun, smart people.”

Source : "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.
“My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.”
“I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not.”
“We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards" [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]”
“You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2013). “Leaving Paradise”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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