"An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God."

-- Patti Smith

#Artist Quotes #Competition Quotes

“Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.”
“Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.”

Source : "Caprica Producer Jane Espenson Redefines Racism in the BSG Universe". AMC interview, www.amc.com.
“Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.”
“Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen.”
“The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.”
“I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations set up an environment that will produce a certain kind of experience in the viewer, but beyond a certain point, I take hands off and leave it up to chance and personal experience. So maybe it's a marriage of control and no control we're talking about where the artist produces the artifact or the environment and then walks away from it, and the second half of the equation is the viewer and their personal history and how they feel about what they're experiencing.”
“I dont usually have dreams. I'm to busy sleeping to dream.”

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