"I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things."

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Vincent Van Gogh

#Believe Quotes #Desire Quotes #Popularity Quotes

“I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.”
“I sell a complete package... a life style that's in harmony with and exemplified by the exterior and interior living space. I'm obsessive about the way I live and work, so when it comes to renovating, I believe in finding the true integrity of a house, then breathing life back into it in a way that connects with a certain type of buyer.”
“Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do themâ€¦Whatever you do or dream you can doâ€”begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
“The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.”
“Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.”
“If criticism could kill you, I'd be dead.”
“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new directionâ€”how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'”

Source : "Future Shock". Book by Alvin Toffler, 1970.
“I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.”

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