"A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Artist Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Energy Quotes

“It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
“I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.”
“Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.”
“I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.”
“Your eye makeup says so much about you and your style.”

Source : Laura Mercier (2010). “The New Beauty Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to a Flawless Face”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.”
“Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.”
“What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'”

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