"As an artist you have to keep reinventing yourself."

-- David Hammons

#Art Quotes #Artist Quotes #Reinventing Yourself Quotes

“Art must not serve might.”

Source : Karel Capek's statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted in Ivan Klima "Karel Capek: Life and Work", 2002.
“When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.”
“I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.”
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
“There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.”

Source : Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”
“The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.”

Source : Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin
“I don't care about the fact that a dogs place is not in a bed - the closer they are to me, the more beautiful it is.”

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