"Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions."

-- Marya Mannes

#War Quotes #Artist Quotes #Vision Quotes

“I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.”
“I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...”

Source : Song: Meat And Potato Man, Album: When Somebody Loves You, 2000
“Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.”
“Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.”
“I think the story is my form.”
“Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.”

Source : Sermon at Hackney Unitarian Church, London, April 24, 1870.
“You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening. I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.”

Source : Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.
“Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.”

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