"Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work."

-- Barry S. Strauss

#Art Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Fire Quotes

“My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.”
“I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.”
“You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.”

Source : Source: sojo.net
“The last thing I want to do... is offend people and ostracize myself.”

Source : "Rocker: 'My words got ahead of my head'". cnn.com. January 13, 2000.
“It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.”
“No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.”
“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”
“Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end”

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