"There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making."

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Source : "Lifting the Veil". www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2008.

John Currin

#Art Quotes #Saying Yes Quotes #Misery Quotes

“The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!”
“But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.”
“In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.”
“It's the sick and twisted male fantasy that we want classy ladies out in the world that make us look good, but in the bedroom, men want subservient women who please all of their whims. It's the typical bullshit of male ego.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.”
“Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.”
“Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.”
“You can do anything you think you can.”

Source : Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.250, Penguin

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