"I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up."

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Jules Olitski

#Coffee Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“Obama's decision to leave, to not sustain the victory that resulted after eight years of fighting, from 2003 to 2011 in Iraq, was another incredibly stupid decision. It was totally based on politics, not based on any notion of national security. It's a nightmare for our national security. And then you have the Libya intervention.”
“Daniel Lowe. My savior. My perfect guy. The boy who would never love me the way that I loved him.”
“During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.”
“Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle...”
“The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.”
“First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.”
“A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there....”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.78, Penguin
“When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.”

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