"It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if you do copy an artist, and you have a close feeling for him, in fact that you need to know more about his work, there is no better way than actually to copy, because you get very close indeed to how somebody thinks."

-- Bridget Riley

#Art Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.”
“I like albums where all the songs are written in one go. If you're trying to create the number-one album with the best songs ever, I get why you'd want to write for three years and pick the best ones, but for me, I'd rather hear a group of songs that are all expressing a state, or time of your life. I think it's more that.”

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“I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.”
“I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.”
“Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.”

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“I run to feel complete, to feel alive, to feel happy, and to feel free. I run to visit beautiful places, to overcome my fears, and to remind myself - and others - that our limits may not be where we think they are.”
“I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.”
“Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.”

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