"I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what is the word that I'm looking for? - metaphorical language in painting, and to create something that was more indexical. And what I mean by that is that when you go to the library there's an index card that refers to a book that's actual and real in the world. So that index relates to something real."

-- Kehinde Wiley

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“After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive!”
“Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff. Rock nâ€™ roll is closest thing Iâ€™ve got to a spiritual power. Itâ€™s been the higher voice in my life and itâ€™s never let me down.”
“It takes a child to say the unsayable.”
“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”
“In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of expression peculiar to the French language. The situation is very similar when we attempt to express in mathematical symbols a condition proposed in words. First, we must understand thoroughly the condition. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of mathematical expression.”
“By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.”
“Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”

Source : "Cloud Atlas". "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 528. Book by David Mitchell, 2004.

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