"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."

-- Gustave Courbet

#Art Quotes #Principles Quotes

“My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.”
“At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.”

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“This life is the greatest lie ever told and the hereafter is the greatest truth ever unknown”
“When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more fun to wander than to be guided, and you could do it in those days with freedom and without paranoia. In similar fashion, I try to allow the reader room to wander, even to meander, to almost lose themselves and their grip of the narrative.”
“I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.”
“A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.”
“I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which is ostensibly uninteresting.”

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“We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.”

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