"You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting."

-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Art Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Painting Quotes

“People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.”

Source : "At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.
“If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.”
“True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.”
“They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.”
“We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.”

Source : "Niecy Nash Rebuts Reality TV Haters:‘We Are Talented, Too’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2012.
“The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to.”
“A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.”
“Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.”

Source : "Democracy could have saved Europe from the single currency". Interview with Daniel Hannan, capx.co. February 5, 2015.

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