"The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks."

-- Emil Nolde

#Artist Quotes #Needs Quotes #Breathe Quotes

“The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback,”
“I never lost money by turning a profit.”
“I always want my shoes real clean. The front of my shoe is really like my personality, where off the court I'm kind of calm and kind of shy a little bit - low key. In the back, it's kind of crazy, just like me on the court. I love how both of my personalities are involved into the shoe.”
“We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.”
“Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.”

Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.8, Vintage
“If you donâ€™t trust, you will die if not physically then emotionally. To do anything in life, you must have faith.”
“I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.”

Source : "Pay It Forward". 2000.
“Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alex Ebert from Sep 16, 2013

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