"If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor."

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Source : Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

Malvina Hoffman

#Art Quotes #Children Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.”
“It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.”
“I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.”
“When the camera comes on, I am not Hayden any more, I am Lizzie!”
“Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2014). “Oleander Girl: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.”
“Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.”
“Sometimes things aren't what they appear. We all have hurts that we don't show.”

Source : Charles Sheehan-Miles (2012). “A Song for Julia”, p.245, Cincinnatus Press

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