"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science."

-- Georges Seurat

#Painting Quotes

“Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often donâ€™t know who you are, which is why they kill you.”

Source : Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.”
“If you are falling....dive.”
“When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.”
“The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.”

Source : Stanley Hauerwas (1995). “In Good Company: The Church as Polis”, p.139, University of Notre Dame Pess
“Do it! People who succeed don't just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they're looking for.”
“There are so many great singers out there.”
“Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.”

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