"My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help."

-- Kathe Kollwitz

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“You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.”
“Those who have never worked nude outdoors just can't imagine how much better a breeze feels on their skin than an item of sweaty clothing.”
“Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.”
“It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.”
“I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2015.
“My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.”
“Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.”

Source : Robert Edmond Jones, Delbert Unruh (1992). “Towards a new theatre: the lectures of Robert Edmond Jones”, Amadeus Press
“I can go to India and draw 20,000 people at a concert, and it's really because I've built up an internet presence.”

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