"...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden."

-- Roger Waters

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“When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...”
“Like many men, I can never find anything that I'm looking for, even when I'm actually looking at it. In a fridge, I think milk is actually invisible to the male eye. And so, it turns out, are dirty great holes in the fence.”
“Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet.”
“It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.”
“As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.”
“Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery”
“For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!”
“Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.”

Source : Statement, April 1, 1924.

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