"People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bullâ€™s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside."

-- Brian Eno

#Art Quotes #Eye Quotes #Arrows Quotes

“If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroyingâ€”or at least deconstructingâ€”conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichÃ©s of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.”
“I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.”
“A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.”
“Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.”
“Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”

Source : "The Martian". Book by Andy Weir, 2014.
“By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.”

Source : Source: en.aup.nl
“Music is the universal language.”
“Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.”

Source : "Rep. Bob Etheridge's Capitol offense" by Jonathan Capehart, voices.washingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.

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