"I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Yale Quotes #Years Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.”

Source : "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.
“A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?”
“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.”
“First of all, you have to born with a brain. I mean, you can't be a dummy and say I'm going to become a multi-billionaire some day. But, more than anything else, you have to love what you do, and beyond that, you can't ever give up.”

Source : "New Again: Wentworth Miller". Interview with Rebecca Walker, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2017.
“The brain has not explained the mind fully.”

Source : Wilder Penfield (2015). “Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain”, p.88, Princeton University Press
“Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?”
“I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very well for the accuracy of the fans' throwing.”

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