"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."

-- Holly Near

#Hurt Quotes #Artist Quotes #Being An Artist Quotes

“Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.”
“Do you become in visible?' 'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (2005). “Alphabet Of Thorn”, p.54, Penguin
“If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.”
“Don't you realize it's the doing that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what we've done...it's about what been done for us.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Jul 11, 2015
“I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.”
“You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.”
“History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.”

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