"Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist]."

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Alexey Brodovitch

#Artist Quotes #Imitation Quotes #Danger Quotes

“My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.”

Source : "Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy" by Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2013.
“They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.”
“Sometimes we want to engage in a war for financial reasons, for strategic reasons, for moral reasons, for all sorts of reasons, and it's important when we're making that decision to remind ourselves of what happens to the people on the front lines when we start this process.”
“Now it's me & my time, it's just me in my prime”
“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
“I love to be sore and when I feel sore I train even harder.”
“Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.”

Source : Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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