"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."

-- Chuck Close

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“To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.31, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.”
“Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.”
“Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.”
“Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality's laws - poorly understood and applied - are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.”
“Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.”
“I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”
“Don't be afraid to have nothing.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.157, Spiegel & Grau

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