"For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. Thats where its found. Its found within you."

-- Jeff Koons

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“It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.”
“there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from the top of your head. The first is the only sort from which any true private pleasure can be gained, for it is a way of getting something out of life which seemed to be there in childhood, when childhood is quite over.”
“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.”
“Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.”
“Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
“There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.”
“We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.”
“We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.”

Source : Traudl Junge (2012). “Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary”, p.6, Hachette UK

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