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“It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.”
Source : Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press
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“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”
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“Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better.”
Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
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“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”
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“In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.”
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“New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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“The most important thing an artist can discover is a love of process.”
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“Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.”
Source : Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.16, Open Road Media
