"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."

-- Damien Hirst

#Art Quotes #Life And Death Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.”
“The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragileâ€”it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.50, Faber & Faber
“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”
“Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.”
“My heart has made its mind up And Iâ€™m afraid itâ€™s you. Whatever youâ€™ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And if you canâ€™t be signed up This year, next year will do. My heart has made its mind up And Iâ€™m afraid itâ€™s you.”
“The only time you can change someone is when they are in diapers.”
“I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.”
“Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.”

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