"I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything."

-- Frank Wedekind

#Born Quotes #Asks Quotes

“One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.”
“Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.”
“The Negro. The South. These are details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared, and detested. I could have been a Jew in Germany, a Mexican in a number of states, or a member of any 'inferior' group. Only the details would have differed. The story would be the same.”

Source : "Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition".
“The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.”

Source : George Bellows, Catherine Anne Green (1981). “George Bellows, Works from the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, August 7-September 7, 1981”
“It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.”
“If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.”
“The morning brought with it, if not a brighter outlook, at least a measure of control, some acceptance. Instinctively, I knew that the new tear in my heart would always ache. That was just going to be a part of me now.”
“During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both write and photograph with the artistry of Robert Vavra.”

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