"A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man..."

-- Henri Matisse

#Men Quotes #Artist Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Novelists never have to footnote.”
“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”

Source : FaceBook post by Peter Straub from Mar 02, 2014
“Full moons, skunk weed all up in the room; You got the munchies, baby? Ice cold milk and Lorna Doones.”
“Now in your inner mind, tell yourself, 'Every time I begin to worry, I will immediately think of something to be grateful for.' Repeat this enough times until you feel that your inner mind will automatically go into gratitude mode as soon as it's aware that it's in worry mode.”
“I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.”

Source : "This week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.
“If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.”
“The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. â€“â€“The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.”
“This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.”

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