"When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing."

-- Luc Tuymans

#Painting Quotes #Intensity Quotes #Concentration Quotes

“Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.”
“The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creative revelations. Yes, its really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.”

Source : "Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on the End (?) of Lost". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.vulture.com. May 11, 2010.
“I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.”
“Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?”
“Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.”
“It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.”
“Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name.”
“I believe there's more than this-that maybe when we die our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife. Something else is going to happen and it's going to be crazy and confusing and weird, and we probably won't know what it's all about. It'll just be another place where we're trying to understand why we exist at all.”

Source : Interview with Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. September 10, 2014.

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