"The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer."

-- Nick Tosches

#Kids Quotes #Men Quotes #Garbage Quotes

“That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.”
“Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.”
“Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.”
“Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance tot the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept op space. All subsequent movements were latent in them or brought about by them... the two movements cannot be regarded as in opposition to each other, even though they started from opposite points; I maintain (an idea approved by Apollinaire and later by Matisse) that they are two extremes of the same sign, tending to coincide at certain points which only the poetic instinct of the painter can discover: poetry being the content and raison d'Ãªtre of art.”

Source : "Letters of the great artists" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (pp. 248-249), 1963.
“It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.”
“If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.”

Source : Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia
“I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.”
“The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself.”

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