"I communicate my innermost perceptions through art."

-- Arshile Gorky

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“The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.”
“I started taking classes and doing things that I had always wanted to do but couldn't because I was working. I signed up for a bunch of workout classes, and to my surprise, I realized I was enjoying it. Because I was working out so much, I started looking for more workout clothes and found a lot of redundancy - predictability that was uninspired. That's when I decided to start my own line.”

Source : "Fashion designer Dayna Devon: Pursuing new passions and plugging into mindfulness". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.”

Source : Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.158, New World Library
“I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.”
“As long as I can enjoy something, other people can enjoy it, too.”
“We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.”
“It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women”
“Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they ***** the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.”

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