"Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly."

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Source : "Art of the 20th Century, Part 1". Book by Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke, p. 190, 2000.

George Grosz

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“With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.”
“Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.”
“War among men defiles this world.”
“So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides...And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting.”
“Failure is just success rounded down.”

Source : Dinosaur Comic Dialogue, www.qwantz.com.
“When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.”

Source : "Vanessa-Mae on the 12 year bitter feud with her mother" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. June 18, 2011.
“Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.”
“Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.”

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