"What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough."

-- A. Y. Jackson

#War Quotes #Artist Quotes #Forever Quotes

“Man what's the point of living if I'm living for myself Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf”
“Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.”
“It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.”
“It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.”
“I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.”
“Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.”
“No. Of all the people who worked for PDM since most of it was sub contracted work, they were all young tradesmen. This is what the state would like for you to believe. But we have very little use for inexperienced teenagers. So they were mostly used for summer..for fillers. It doesn't make sense to use a tradesman to do cleanup work on a job when your paying a tradesman $15 an hour and you can hire a young man or boy at say $7 or $8 an hour to sweep up after the contractors outta there.”
“I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.”

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