"I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood."

-- Laurence Gartel

#Love Quotes #Art Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'”
“All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.”
“If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.”
“We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that's a powerful message.”
“I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.”
“I know that through the grace of God, I am the founder of Manitoba.”

Source : Louis Riel (1886). “The Queen Vs. Louis Riel: Accused and Convicted of the Crime of High Treason. Report of Trial at Regina.--Appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench, Manitoba.--Appeal to the Privy Council, England.--Petition for Medical Examination of the Convict.--List of Petitions for Commutation of Sentence, Ottawa”
“I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.”

Source : "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2009.

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