"What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me."

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Source : "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

Ralph Steadman

#Moving Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Dollars Quotes

“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.”
“The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.”
“I know where the people are and I know how talented people are. Sometimes they aren't given opportunities because people come with their own biases about what Bahamians can do, especially if they're foreign productions.”
“Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?”
“I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.”
“The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.”
“Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.”

Source : Sydney Thompson Dobell (1860). “Poems. Author's ed”, p.217
“When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.”

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