"I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full."

-- Cecily Brown

#Cat Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Want Quotes

“Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.”
“Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying,”
“Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.”
“Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.”
“Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.”

Source : Ben Shapiro (0101). “And We All Fall Down”, p.55, Creators Publishing
“The Big Valbowski is kinda like a pool just jump right in and get wet!!”
“I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.”
“Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.”

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