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I just shook my head, knowing this was him evading the question. You," I said, "have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit." Bit?" You know what I mean." He shook his head, clearly discounting this description. And you," he said, "have that whole blonde, cool and collected, perfect smart girl thing going on." You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with," I said. You," he replied, "are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.


Sarah Dessen


#artists

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.


James Joyce


#ireland #james-joyce #artists

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.


Oscar Wilde


#artists

They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.


Hubert Selby Jr.


#satisfaction #dreams

Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do something it did not want to do, it would fight him, and his chisel would slip, or dig in too deeply, spoiling the shapes. But once he had got to know the lump of rock in front of him he could transform it. The more difficult the task, the more fascinated he was. He was beginning to feel that the decorative carving demanded by Tom was too easy. Zigzags, lozenges, dogtooth, spirals and plain roll moldings bored him, and even these leaves were rather stiff and repetitive. He wanted to curve natural-looking foliage, pliable and irregular, and copy the different shapes of real leaves, oak and ash and birch.


Ken Follett


#artist #art

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.


John F. Kennedy


#dogmatism #comfort

Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.


Anthony Burgess


#artists #freedom-of-expression #art

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.


H.L. Mencken


#patriotism #crime

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.


Thomas Jefferson


#revolution #slogan #liberty

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.


John Stuart Mill


#individuality #liberty #tyranny #liberty






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