"When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability."

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Will Cotton

#Desire Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Painting Quotes

“to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.”
“The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.”

Source : “'Tread Softly Because You Tread on My Dreams,' A Story of American Greatness" by Molly Alexander Darden, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.
“No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.”
“I remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.”
“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”

Source : Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press
“There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.”
“The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid.”

Source : "An Unrepentant Prognosticator". Interview with Mari Krueger, www.gelfmagazine.com. April 24, 2007.

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