"When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Jackson Pollock

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“If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.”
“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”

Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1957). “How to Enjoy Work and Get More Fun Out of Life”
“The piano is not firewood -- yet.”

Source : Song: Firewood, Album: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, 2012
“Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the vast space of primordial awareness, and there is just this. Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of satori, that it was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with satori or awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: it's just this.”
“Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.”

Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark T, p. 262, 1732.
“Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and theyâ€™re nice little guys who are usually in college, and theyâ€™re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.”
“Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the termÂ magic realism, whoever invented itÂ â€“ I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.”

Source : "Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". www.believermag.com. March 2003.
“I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.”

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