"I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to say, 'Tall buildings are great' why not just leave it at that: "Tall buildings are great.""

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Jonathan Meades

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Should Have Quotes

“Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.”
“Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.”
“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.”
“You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.”
“... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.”
“People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?”
“We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.”
“Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.”

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