"In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk..."

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Graham Sutherland

#Sacrifice Quotes #Order Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.”
“It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.”

Source : Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”
“What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out.”
“We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jerry Lee Lewis". "Walk The Line", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”

Source : "Lake Wobegon Days". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1985.
“For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.”

Source : "An Introduction to English Poetry". Book by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.
“I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.”

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