"My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it."

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Source : FaceBook post by David Peace from Nov 25, 2011

David Peace

#Art Quotes #Father Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Mr. McCleod: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body's strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don't get too dehydrated.”
“I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.”
“Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.”
“Build your world around me, and promise to never let me go, and if ever their comes a time it may seem crowded, may we expand so love may grow.”
“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.”

Source : Charles Mackay (1841). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions”, p.314
“The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'”
“The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.”

Source : Joanna Macy (2013). “Greening of the Self”, p.7, Parallax Press
“She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.”

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