"Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us."

-- Anne Rice

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“I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.”
“Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.”
“I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.”
“Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.”
“If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.”
“Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.”
“Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.”

Source : David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.93, Crown Business
“I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.”

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