"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought."

-- David Hockney

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Surfing - I have to go surfing.”
“Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.”

Source : Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.19, Penguin
“Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.”
“For me, fashion is an expression of who I am right in that moment - so what you're seeing is what I'm influenced by now.”
“I always loved working in comedy.”
“No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frasier, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.”
“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.”
“We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.”

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