"There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Art Quotes #Work Quotes #Railroads Quotes

“I was taken by William Burroughsâ€™ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.”
“England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.”

Source : Caryl Churchill (2013). “Serious Money”, p.59, A&C Black
“How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.”
“Amazing.â€ Hi stripped off his shirt, wrung it out. â€œScore one for your honker.â€ â€œThanks, I think.â€ I cocked my chin at Hiâ€™s substantial midsection. â€œNice abs.â€ â€œYeah, I work out twice a month. No expectations. But stop hitting on me, itâ€™s embarrassing.”
“Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.”
“I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.”
“He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.”
“Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.”

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