Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.
If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.
Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.
The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.
How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical. . . Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.
One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.
The person you love is 72. 8% water, and it hasn't rained for weeks.
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").
If the tea party folks would go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sake, a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet's being injured by what's happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and the old practices that we have. That's something worth getting angry about.
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.