"I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day. One doesn't imagine what comes down the line."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Thinking Quotes #Artist Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.”
“Forget yourself and go to work.”
“There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.”
“When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. I would get angry. My legs would actually hurt when I was studying. My head ached. All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret. When I'd go to a new school, I wouldn't want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I'd be sent off to remedial reading.”
“The best things are placed between extremes.”
“I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.”
“Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.”
“I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.”

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