"If I can make something real and it's appreciated and accessible to other people, I'm happy."

-- Lizz Wright

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Appreciated Quotes

“What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.”
“God'll send the bill to you.”
“I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.”
“He had to feel those lips on him again. Had. To. This wasnâ€™t a mild expression of preference. This was an imperative. His body was insistent. To continue his existence on this earth, he now needed the following: food, water, shelter, clothing, and Minerva Highwoodâ€™s lips.”
“There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”

Source : John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.”
“Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.”
“It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.”

Source : Graham Vivian Sutherland, John T. Hayes (1977). “Portraits by Graham Sutherland”

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