"Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me."

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Joan Miro

#Religious Quotes #Art Quotes #Hands Quotes

“By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.”
“If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
“I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.
“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.”

Source : James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.287, Rutgers University Press
“wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.”
“I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.”
“God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.”
“The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.”

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