"You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings."

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Source : Interview with Frank & Vicent Tilsley, .News Chronicle & Daily Dispatch, December 1, 1955.

L. S. Lowry

#Feelings Quotes #Brain Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Each morning at Holy Mass, the Bread of Life will help the body as well as the soul, if we have faith. If we but touch the hem of His garment...and how much more have we than that! We can find Him, at every moment, on the altar. Be with Him there. Better than all books! Thank the Trinity over and over again for this Gift. Rest in His presence, and my guardian angel will adore Him for me. Silence.”
“The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer”
“I saw the head of NOW - National Organization of Women - saying that women still only make 70 cents on the dollar to every man. I'm not sure I'm going to believe that. Women are notoriously bad at math.”
“It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.”
“I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.”
“An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.”
“Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.”
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”

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