"My friend advised me to go into studying art, which at first shocked me because art was so easy. It was just something I did, like breathing or brushing my teeth. It couldn't be a job. I had a much more difficult time writing plays, making myself sit at that typewriter and finish those things."

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David Small

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Difficult Times Quotes

“The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.”
“I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.”
“The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine that they limit the number of their offspring to three or four children, and how this can be accomplished, is both pernicious and an abomination in the sight of the Lord; and it robs both man and his Maker of their glory and increase.”
“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”

Source : Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan, The Fabulous Wilson Mizner (1935)
“The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.”
“I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.”
“The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.”
“...like a predator about to devour the target.”

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