"Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment."

-- Genesis P-Orridge

#Spiritual Quotes #Being Yourself Quotes #Art Quotes

“Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.”
“I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.”
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
“Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.”
“Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.”

Source : "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.
“To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication of bacilli, it is necessary to isolate the bacilli from the body, to grow them in pure culture until they are freed from every disease product of the animal organism, and, by introducing isolated bacilli into animals, to reproduce the same morbid condition that is known to follow from inoculation with spontaneously developed tuberculous material.”

Source : Robert Koch (1987). “Essays of Robert Koch”, Praeger Pub Text
“Saying "now it's done" . It's horrible. Sometimes I force myself to do it or I know I will turn crazy.”
“Salma and I had run into each other once or twice at film festivals because I was doing the press for Real Women Have Curves at the same time she was doing the press for Frida. She had seen Real Women Have Curves, and when the idea of Ugly Betty came up, she thought of me. Her enthusiasm about the project was so infectious-she spoke of it with such expectation. Everyone that was involved was really excited about the project. I really wanted to be a part of it.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

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