“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.” ThinkingFeelsLooksLittlesHas BeensRealCountryNatureWalksRocksPaintingPaintCloudsStudiosWoodsEach DayLiving ThingsDiagrams Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!” PeopleLooksDifferentEyeBeautifulRocksFitOrdinaryLike MeSuitsFighterNosesFlatsThroatScarConventionsOrdinary PeopleTissuesSaddlesScar Tissue Author:Willie Pastrano
“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.” LooksHelpingSeemsRocksHundredDeterminationPerseveranceCracksWill And DeterminationDetermination MotivationalDetermination Perseverance Author:Jacob August Riis
“If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.” IfsLooksHappensWantedDesireGenerationsRocksGrewGrew UpRock And RollAngstMy GenerationHeyday Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.” LooksRealSeemsRocksBandDocumentariesLarger Than Life Author:Dave Grohl
“We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.” ThinkingShouldYearsLooksMadeSchoolTreeMiddleRocksCoupleBandEconomicsShould HaveGrantedShakesIdleRock And RollBack WhenRippedReplacements Author:Paul Westerberg
“Don't stop. Keep right on going. Hitch up your trailer and go to Canada or down to Old Mexico. Head for Europe if you can afford it, or go to Mardi Gras. Go someplace you've heard about, where you can fish or hunt or collect rocks or just look up at the sky. Find out what's at the end of some country road. Go see what's over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that.” IfsLooksEndsCountryNextHeardSkyRocksEuropeFishesHillsLook UpCanadaMexicoHuntsTrailersMardi GrasCountry Roads Author:Wally Byam
“If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?” IfsLooksDifferentHandsStarsInterestRocksParticularTasteAffairInstanceTemplesSuggestionsHintsReinsHurryingPersonal InterestFoiblesGuiding Stars Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.” KnowsLifeWellsLooksNextRocksDangerOne DayMortalsPerplexity Author:Sophocles