"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential."

-- Ellen Goodman

#New Year Quotes #Years Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“Through play, we renew contact with childhood â€“ My art is childlike.”

Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
“When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?”
“The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.”
“Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.”
“Great countries are those that produce great people.”
“In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.”
“You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.”

Source : Kathryn Hulme (1956). “The Nun's Story”, Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown
“I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”

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