"When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain."

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Source : John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.34, Oberon Books

John Logan

#Lonely Quotes #Art Quotes #Parent Quotes

“We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.”
“I don't ever feel a full transition to my character. I don't ever feel like I have left myself, because if I did, I would need professional medical attention. I always have to keep my own wits about me, or I would miss a mark on the floor, or be unable to follow the director's advice from the last take. However, when I'm at my best, I feel like I'm doing an impression of a person I've never met. It feels complete, and yet improvised.”
“I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.”
“The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (2000). “The healers: a novel”, Per Ankh Pub
“I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.”
“As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'”
“If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.”
“I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.”

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