"I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves."

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Source : "My Life". Book by Oskar Kokoschka, 1974.

Oskar Kokoschka

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“Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there can be failure, and there will be failure. Push it to a place where there can be success, and there will be success. But whether there is success or failure, if one entrusts himself to the straightness of this wagon of the core of the mind, he will attain right-mindedness in either case. Severing oneself from desire and being like a rock or tree, nothing will ever be achieved. Not departing from desire, but realizing a desireless right-mindedness - this is the Way.”

Source : "The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman".
“Being an NFL quarterback there's a lot of advantages that come with it. There are a lot of doors that open when you're a quarterback but at the same time there's a lot of scrutiny. There are a lot of things you can't do as well.”
“The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies”
“Do your best and God will do the rest”
“I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.”
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”

Source : Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.13, Faber & Faber
“A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.”
“Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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