"I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it."

-- Tom Morello

#Thinking Quotes #Artist Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you”
“Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.”
“Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.”
“The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.”
“I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Bailey's Cafe: A Novel”, p.147, Open Road Media
“I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.”
“You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.”
“The concept of luck is very straightforward.Â Some people notice opportunities and others don't.”

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