"Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art."

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Matthew Collings

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes

“If you have no enemies, you have no character.”
“Laughter is inner jogging.”
“The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.”

Source : William Segal (1998). “Opening: Collected Writings of William Segal, 1985-1997”, Continuum International Publishing Group
“Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.”

Source : Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.218, Macmillan
“With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I didn't know music could make me feel good, I guess.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I think the two sides to me are the same as two sides to anybody. In relation to the link between doing the label and being a DJ, it goes back to the thing of necessity. It's the only way I feel I can do something creative that's going to satisfy me.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.”

Source : John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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