"I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do."

-- Lucian Freud

#Art Quotes #Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.”
“We live in a time of record breaking crisis but it's also a time of record breaking vision”
“So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.”
“The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.”
“There they were sitting at the bar, these two Luscious babes, and they were Siamese twins.”
“It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.”
“Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.”
“Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.”

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