"It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check."

-- Russell Banks

#Reality Quotes #Years Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country."”
“The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.”
“For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.”
“A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?”
“I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own and finally, also without any counsel because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop.”
“The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.”

Source : "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (Ch. 1), 1936.
“The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.”
“I was nervous during Radiohead, we thought that they would hate us. I think when we played in LA, one of the dudes from Entourage was in the audience, and that was kinda weird. If anyone would make me nervous it would be David Bowie, Neil Young, someone like that.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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