M Quotes
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“My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.”
Source: Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.”
Source: The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir
“My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!”
“My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).”
“My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.”
“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”
“My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.”
“My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.”
“My work as a Meridian Psychotherapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist has taught me that people often feel guilty about the way they feel or think and many do not realise that seasonal changes can have a profound effect on the psyche.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.”
“My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.”
“My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.”
“My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.”
“My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.”
“My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.”
“My work at Westwind had given me access to emotions I didn't know I was capable of. I would start laughing or crying at the drop of a damn hat. Crying at a particularly beautiful sunset or a particularly beautiful parking meter, it didn't matter.
It felt as if my life up to this point was spent living within a tiny range of sensations, rolling back and forth like a pinball. At Westwind that emotional range was blasted apart, allowing for ecstasy and despair like I had never experienced it.”
Source: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
“My work became an exploration of non-intention.”
Source: John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces
“My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.”
“My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.”
“My work comes first, reasons for it follow.”
“My work comes from a land beyond labels, a place deeper than thought can penetrate.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers… I try to bewitch the crowd.”
“My work comes how I perceive the world around me. I write from a point of empathy, free from judgement, to greater understand my finite existence and help others navigate through theirs. My stories are testimonials of my emotional experiences and discoveries intertwined with ever-present mysteries."
-- Ernest Langston”
Source: Beyond Everyday Secrets
“My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.”
“My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.”
“My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.”
“My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.”
“My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.”
“My work embodies little visions of the great intangible. ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.”
“My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.”
“My work ethic is something that I thought would help the team.”
“My work explores family and power as lived forces. I write fast, letting pressure expose character. I see my characters fully, in rooms, in moments, and the words follow. Editing is where I sharpen the sensory detail, so readers can see what I saw as I wrote.”
Source: Marcella Sicilan Nostra
“My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.”
“My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.”
“My work from the last 25 years has been asking people to see differently.”
“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.”
“My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.”
“My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.”
“My work has always been the product of my time.”
“My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. I was coming out of a melancholic phase. This was taken when I was traveling extensively, on the road from hotel to hotel. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself.”
“My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.”
“My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.”
“My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.”
“My work has been the education I avoided.”
“My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work.”
“My work has gotten a bit strange. I do consulting, and people ask, "Could you give me your opinion on this, and could you take a picture?" And I've been approached by a lot of magazines, but I'm trying to take it slowly. In fact, I'm part of the first generation of photographers who don't have to depend on magazines because we have our own media and everyone sees our photos.”
“My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.”
“My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I try to express something that is more a collective expression of crisis.”
“My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.”
“My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007