"Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings."

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W. H. Auden

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“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.”
“Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.”
“The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.”
“The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things...”
“I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.”
“In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.”
“These narrow-footed forms I was making, I thought, gosh, I could push those further, not to construct them the way [Hans] Coper did but to work in my own manner but push it more toward that form. And I learned to do that and enjoyed it for a number of years.”
“I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.”

Source : "One last thing... Sam Trammell". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2011.

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