"When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!"

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Edward Hopper

#Goes On Quotes #Painting Quotes #Mood Quotes

“We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.”
“We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.”
“Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about”

Source : William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.315, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
“the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.”
“When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.”
“[In] the 21st century, the mainstream can satisfy your every whim. I guess the idea of walking around with groups of people dressed the same and saying, "I'm only into ska" or "I'm only into whatever" - is kind of restrictive in the 21st century. I don't know if it's a bad thing that these movements have run their course. I think what I miss about it is the collective experience.”
“For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.”

Source : "The Tunisia Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2011.
“The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE”

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