"I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound."

-- Arthur Dove

#Wind Quotes #Water Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I was never a member of the peace movement or a pacifist, nor was I ever carried away from a demonstration outside a military barracks. Perhaps that's why I don't feel the need to compensate for anything.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.”

Source : Interview with David Armstrong, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
“If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.”

Source : Edmund Wilson (2001). “I Thought of Daisy”, p.59, University of Iowa Press
“In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.”
“I'm not sure that it's right to view this as excluding a particular group. When the institution of marriage developed historically, people didn't get around and say, 'Let's have this institution, but let's keep out homosexuals.' The institution developed to serve purposes that, by their nature, didn't include homosexual couples.”
“..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”
“I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished.”

Source : Source: onpoint.wbur.org
“For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.”

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