"grievance does not make for great art."

-- Eva Figes

#Art Quotes #Doe Quotes #Grievance Quotes

“Send the haters all my love. X and O.”
“Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.”
“When people ask about the aspect of race in the work, they are looking for very simple or easy answers. Part of it is when you think other people are so different than yourself, you imagine that their thoughts aren't the same. When I think about thought, I think about how much there is that is common.”
“The goalie is like the guy on the minefield. He discovers the mines and destroys them. If you make a mistake, somebody gets blown up.”
“I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.”

Source : Patrick Carman (2011). “The Land of Elyon #2: Beyond the Valley of Thorns”, p.101, Scholastic Inc.
“Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.”
“All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.”
“We all have the same needs. So it's immoral to make snap judgments about people.”

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