"The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution."

-- Tracy Chevalier

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Painting Quotes

“Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.”
“I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.”
“Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 4, 2011.
“Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.”
“The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.”

Source : Robert K. Greenleaf (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.127, Paulist Press
“Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.”

Source : "Poverty and the Presidency: Uruguay’s Jose Mujica" by Conrad Black, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.
“Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.”
“The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.”

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