"The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies"

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Source : 1899 The Awakening, ch.39.

Kate Chopin

#Artist Quotes #Soul Quotes #Courageous Quotes

“All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.”
“In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.”
“These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding.”
“On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.”
“One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.”
“Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.”
“I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those things exist, but if you don't have anyone speaking anymore, those things are still there. The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.”

Source : Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.
“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”

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