"We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?"

-- Julian Barnes

#Progress Quotes #Pace Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.”

Source : "On my painting". Republished text of Beckmann's public speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art' in London, July 21, 1938.
“Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking”
“I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.”
“When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.”
“Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.”
“This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.”
“I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.”
“Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.”

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