"Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible."

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Philip Guston

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Vision Quotes

“There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.”

Source : Song: Say Goodbye, Album: Chris Brown, 2005
“I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.”
“The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.”
“The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.”
“That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2014). “Lila: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan
“I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people”
“Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.”
“The GOPâ€™s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.”

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