#press

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#being #day #every #every day #i

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. ↗

— Karl Marx

#creature #heart #heartless #opium #oppressed

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#does #expresses #individuals #relations #society

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about. ↗

— Richard Marx

#certainly #depression #had #happiest #happiest people

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#before #concert #conductor #deeply #first

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#efforts #enable #express #her #him

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#after #artist #color #expression #means

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#conscious #expressing #generate #i #light

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#breakup #concurrently #device #did #even

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#bank #being #bores #church #fire