"No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime."

-- Marcel Duchamp

#Artist Quotes #Trying Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself- if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.”
“I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.”
“Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.”
“your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichÃ©s because clichÃ©s are sociable.”

Source : Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”
“A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".”
“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
“You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.”

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