"He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death."

-- Irving Stone

#Artist Quotes #Painful Quotes #Form Quotes

“I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.”

Source : "Matt Smith and Karen Gillan Interview DOCTOR WHO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2011.
“If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.”
“Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.39
“I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.”
“Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all.”
“Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.”

Source : Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.175, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.”
“I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.”

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