"Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him."

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J. M. Coetzee

#Art Quotes #Trying Quotes #Restoration Quotes

“I've always wondered, how did Hitler get away with so much for so long?”
“My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.”
“The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.”
“I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.”
“Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.”
“Be intentional about your life and what you want to accomplish, but understand there's no choice you make that you can't change.”
“Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.”
“The first professional game of your career is obviously the biggest, but you still get the jitters, you still get the adrenaline rush before every game. A lot of people don't realize that, but it's true. I have always told myself that if you don't feel those nerves and you're not having fun, you shouldn't be playing. And I always enjoy the competition, the adrenaline rush before a game. And just competing with your buddies at the highest level, every day.”

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