"The passions often engender their contraries."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Passion Quotes

“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
“Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016
“Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.”
“My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.”
“I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.”

Source : Raymond Cogniat, Georges Braque, Joanne Greenspun (1980). “Georges Braque”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Source : "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
“But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didnâ€™t know they could go. I see myself as a mentor now and Iâ€™m excited to lead some of these talented young guys.”
“I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.”

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