"If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting."

-- Robin G. Collingwood

#Artist Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Effort Quotes

“everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.”
“My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations”

Source : Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I wouldn't say that I'm aggressive in going out to find work and stuff like that. I just sort of, if something comes along, and it's something I like, and they want to hire me, I'll do it. I won't just do anything.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 01, 2003.
“In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“That night I dreamed of turduckens.”

Source : S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.101, Feiwel & Friends
“Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.”
“There's bad and then there's EDDY CURRY BAD.”
“That was the first time I knew I loved him.”

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