#go

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #before #being #change #during

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#desire #everything #give #good #including

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#any #become #change #different #everyone

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#laws #other #repeal #such

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#ask #god #help #i #i can

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress. ↗

— Amy Jo Johnson

#good #good living #hobby #i #living

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#angels #answer #charge #govern #man

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#being #chances #elvis #finding #good

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#being #career #good #good life #good time