"I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself."

-- Kiki Smith

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Listening Quotes

“In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.”
“I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.”
“Iâ€™d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.”
“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
“For no part of Creation is left void of him: he has filled all things everywhere...”
“I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.”

Source : Susan Hill (1993). “Mrs. de Winter”, Random House (UK)
“Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.”
“As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from this time of the day to this time of the day." Almost treat it like a real job. I can't do that. I've never been able to write songs like that. You never know when something creative is going to hit you, or emotion or whatever. You can take it, and turn it into something that makes somebody feel something. I love that about my job.”

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