"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."

-- Russell Banks

#Reading Quotes #Boys Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.”

Source : Judith Hanson Lasater (2016). “Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times”, Shambhala Publications
“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.”

Source : Julia Margaret Cameron (1973). “Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women”, David R. Godine Publisher
“My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist.”
“To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.”
“Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.”
“I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the words seemed wonderful, just too wonderful to be coming from me. Next morning I always found they were terrible and I could never use anything I wrote.”
“Ive been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. Im not a Wall Street lawyer, Im a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.”
“I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.”

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