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Geoff Rickly
"I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about." --
Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.
Geoff Rickly
#Art Quotes
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#Essence Quotes
“Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.”
“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.”
“Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.”
“When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.”
“People need to know that by donating, coaching, and just lending support, anyone can become part of the wonderful global family.”
“As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member”
“Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.”
“The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa”
