"I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist."

-- Ryan McGinley

#Art Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Want Quotes

“I'd like to thank Mom and Dad, just for the genetics.”
“I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy”
“I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.”
“The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.90, Penguin
“You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling.”

Source : Lissa Rankin (2015). “The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose”, p.117, Rodale
“Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so”
“In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University”
“I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.”

Source : "Trusting 'in the Lord and a Good Lawyer'". Newsweek, December 08, 1986.

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