"To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend."

-- Walter Pater

#Passion Quotes #Artist Quotes #Flames Quotes

“3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour”
“Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?' That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.' Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.”

Source : Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.274, WaterBrook
“It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, because you want to understand yourself and what your psyche is creating.”

Source : "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.
“When faced with defeat, rise to your feet!”
“Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!”
“One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.”
“Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.”
“The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.”

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