#red

Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created. ↗

— Timothy Simpson

#beauty #boredom-to-brilliance #creative-process #timothy-simpson #art

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good! ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#abstractly #am #annoys #call #chinese

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#incredibly #launching #like #me #music

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#bored #boredom #crazy #depressed #ever

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. ↗

— Emile Zola

#having #i #myself #nuisance #often

I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself. ↗

— Ike Turner

#because #confidence #enjoy #fighting #get

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#into #many #persons #scared #servitude

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#had #his #james #life #meredith

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#best #entered #ever #father #job

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street. ↗

— Max Muller

#another #astonished #been #deeply #did