"Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If youâ€™re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If youâ€™re not an artist, at least you can do a good dayâ€™s work."

-- Paddy Chayefsky

#Art Quotes #Good Day Quotes #Writing Quotes

“If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.”
“In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.”

Source : Kevin Smith (2012). “Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good”, p.13, Penguin
“I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.”
“One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.”
“I like the fansâ€™ sound at night. Do you? Itâ€™s like somebody big far away goes like: itâ€™sOKitâ€™sOKitâ€™sOKitâ€™sOK, over and over. From very far away.”
“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.”
“I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A”
“All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.”

Source : Rex Brandt (1977). “Watercolor techniques and methods: the twenty basic lessons adapted from The winning ways of watercolor for easy student and studio use”

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