"I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together."

-- Kurt Schwitters

#Together Quotes #Buttons Quotes #Junk Quotes

“I love playing out. I love dance music, I love minimal electro. Especially hearing that in clubs, it's a nod to that really.”
“Days of trouble must be days of prayer.”

Source : Matthew Henry (1866). “An Exposition of the Book of Psalms: With Practical Remarks and Observations”, p.368
“I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.”
“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”
“We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This book gives people both a way of expressing their needs congruently and non-blamefully and a way of listening so others feel not just heard, but understood.”
“Drawing and composition are the same thing.”
“The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing.”

Source : Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.102, MotorBooks International
“The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend the rest of your life trying to find that, but you can't because everyone's in it for their own thing. It's kind of cynical.”

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