"Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth... will also become the raw material for the art you make."

-- Teresita Fernandez

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Raw Materials Quotes

“Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.”
“When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There was a girl that bullied me years ago, and I was going through, you know, just the standard Instagram wormhole on her account, going way back into her photos and, yes, ended up liking something and I was like, "No!" I just wanted to disconnect my Instagram - Oh, and then she wrote me a message saying, "It's so great to see you doing well." I was like, "Nope, nope, you don't get to say that now!"”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.”
“I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.”

Source : "Carrie-Anne Moss Is the One" by David Hochman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.184, Northwestern University Press
“Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.”
“If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.”

Source : "Art, Film and Wilderness". Interview with Kevin George, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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