"Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics."

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Rachel Kushner

#Art Quotes #Play Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“His desire to bless you goes infinitely beyond your own personal desire to secure His blessing. There is always peace in His presence. Do not disturb this by anxiety to know what is in store for tomorrow. Out of the very tranquility of worship will be born the guidance you need.”

Source : Frances J. Roberts (2013). “Total Love”, p.53, Barbour Publishing
“Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.”
“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease .....”
“If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God.”

Source : Letter to M. Francais, 1875.
“Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”
“I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.”
“Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.”

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