"One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union."

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Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

Robert Motherwell

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“I want people to hear my story, they're gonna feel my pain.”
“Happiness is a moving target.”

Source : Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.193, Macmillan
“Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and the Ocaina language is basically about to disappear in this generation. You know, there are very few people that speak it. And he's one of them.”
“I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.”
“You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.”

Source : "Hardball" with Mike Barnicle, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2006.
“In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficienc y and positive rejection of God. The present issue between God and man is one of whether man will accept God's estimate of him, abandon his hopeless self-struggle, and cast himself only on God who alone is sufficient to accomplish his needed transformation.”
“It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.”
“A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?”

Source : "Bashir: Romney Not Presidential Material Because He Doesn't Drink". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 23, 2012.

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