"When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor."

-- Walter Hilton

#Roots Quotes #Desire Quotes #Sin Quotes

“I don't think you can tell somebody how they should collect. I think it's just about being turned on by art.At the end of the day, some people just kind of get it. They don't all get it in the same way or get the same artists, but it's a journey that excites them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest.”
“I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.”
“There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.”
“It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.”
“I like form and shape and strength in pictures.”
“Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

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