"Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work"

-- Tara Donovan

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“I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.”

Source : "Stella Vine's The Waltz at Museum of New Art". Detroit Museum of New Art, September 15, 2006.
“It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.”
“Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.”
“Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.”
“Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?”
“Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.”
“Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing
“As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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