"It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust."

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Source : Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

Robert Longo

#Drawing Quotes #Dust Quotes #Painting Quotes

“Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'”

Source : 1977 In Woman magazine, 9 Apr.
“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (1977). “Theodore Dreiser: a selection of uncollected prose”, Wayne State Univ Pr
“A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.”
“Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.”
“You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.”
“There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.”

Source : Fanny Fern (2016). “Ruth Hall”, p.164, Fanny Fern
“I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. So you asked, â€˜When things get really, really difficult in your life, what keeps you going?â€™ For me, itâ€™s always that the most difficult moments in my life, the moments in which I believe Iâ€™ve completely failed or hit bottom, I can actually directly link them to something later that is either a true success or a dream come true. So, I do believe that if you can maintain that everything happens for a reason, you can find the strength and the lesson in those difficult moments and grow stronger.”
“As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.”

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