"The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor of expressionistic style. This was perhaps the only example, Lehmbruck, between my sixteenth to nineteenth years in which I saw a possibility for art to be principally of interest to innovate some things, instead of writing a very boring, naturalistic repetition of what is already done by nature."

-- Joseph Beuys

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.”
“Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.”
“All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.”
“[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes-ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases.”
“I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.”
“Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!”

Source : Barry Pain (1892). “Playthings and Parodies”, London [etc.] Cassell
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”
“Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.”

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