"Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere."

-- Philip Guston

#Memories Quotes #Artist Quotes #Magic Quotes

“The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.”
“Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind "Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back.”
“When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.”
“The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .”
“It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd just forget about you. They wouldn't even waste the time hating you.”
“OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away”
“Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.”

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