"I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity."

-- Cindy Sherman

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“With love, even the rocks will open.”
“The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.”
“Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?”

Source : "The Saturday interview: Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham". Interview with Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.
“No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.”
“Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.”
“The Mayor, Aldermen and Councilors of the City of Nauvoo, IL, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that they will support the Constitution of the United States, and of this State and that they will well and truly perform the duties of their offices to the best of their skill and abilities.”
“They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”
“Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York...”

Source : "Glenn Beck blasts Gov. Cuomo's remark against conservatives". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2014.

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