"If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it."

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Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

Edward Gorey

#Drawing Quotes #Might Quotes #Creeps Quotes

“When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.”

Source : George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.227
“The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.”
“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.”
“That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.”
“So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.”
“Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.”
“It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.”
“Man reacts upon and toward the external universe in three ways, namely, by his active natureÂ ; by his intellectual natureÂ ; by his moral nature - that is, he acts upon it, thinks about it, and feels toward it.”

Source : Richard Maurice Bucke (1879). “Man's Moral Nature: An Essay”, New York : G. P. Putnam's sons ; Toronto, Ont. : Willing & Williamson

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