"I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved."

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Source : "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

Ralph Steadman

#Dark Quotes #Artist Quotes #Vision Quotes

“As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.53, Oxford University Press
“It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.”

Source : Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe
“I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.”
“I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.”
“The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.”
“There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.”
“Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.”
“I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.”

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