"Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does."

-- Willem de Kooning

#Artist Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Patience is the key to joy.”
“Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.”
“fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.”
“Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My[Jesus] Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor.....Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptations, and they dare not attack us.”
“Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.”
“This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.”
“Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.”

Source : Boris Johnson (2003). “The essential Boris Johnson: lend me your ears”
“I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.”

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