"It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout."

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Source : BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

Ben Shahn

#Art Quotes #Wall Quotes #Pride Quotes

“Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.”
“The best thing we can do for the dead is to do their share of living with a smile. ~Train Heartnet”
“What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.”
“The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.”
“I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.”
“If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF”
“When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it.”

Source : "Q+A: Jackie Earle Haley, Good-Natured Monster". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 10, 2012.
“Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.”

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