"I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually.. we were all getting the same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales."

-- Cindy Sherman

#Guy Quotes #Painter Quotes

“It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.”
“How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'”
“If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.”
“On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America-that holy of holies of capitalism-than in any other country in the world.”

Source : Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).
“We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.”
“No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.”
“A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “Razing the Bastions: On the Church in this Age”, p.18, Ignatius Press
“When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.”

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