"Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer."

-- Alfred Armand Montapert

#Men Quotes #Dodge Quotes #Beats Quotes

“I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.”
“Some people wait for a miracle to start living their lives happily. Others, use that time and create the miracle themselves.”
“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush... there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 38), 2004.
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
“Your history does not need to define your destiny.”
“At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill.”
“Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.”
“When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.”

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