"In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence."

-- Gerhard Richter

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“Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.”
“The best ideas start as conversations.”

Source : "DM25 What Next for Design? with Jonathan Ive". Interview with Deyan Sudjic, designmuseum.org. November 12, 2014.
“Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.”
“Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?”
“No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.”
“Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.”
“The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.”

Source : 1963 In the Observer,17 Jul.
“Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.”

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