"The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression."

-- Eric Maisel

#Depression Quotes #Strong Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.”
“Integrity is the first step to true greatness.”
“When I look around me, I can't help having faith.”
“Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.”
“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.”

Source : Marco Polo, William Marsden (1926). “The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian”, Doubleday
“All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.”
“We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.”

Source : "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.
“We talked--recent history only--and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. "He showed up at the door one night, demanding to be let in. Napped on the sofa for an hour, then demanded to be let out. It turned into a nightly ritual, with him staying longer and longer, until at some point I realized he'd moved in. He's basically the most brazen squatter ever.”

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