"Desmond Morris says that men make better artists because they are greater risk-takers; on the other hand, he thinks that women are better organisers and diplomats and more suited to become politicians."

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Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

Grayson Perry

#Artist Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.”
“This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this is what such doctrine tends to. All who have never been deeply convicted of sin, all persons in whom this conviction is based on gross external sins, believe more or less in freewill”

Source : John Nelson Darby (1881). “Letters by J.N.D., 1849-1875; extracts tr. from the French”
“Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.”
“The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.”
“In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.”
“Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.”

Source : Henry Christopher Wallich (1960). “The Cost of Freedom: Conservatism and Modern Capitalism”
“As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.”
“That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.”

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