The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins. - Fritz Scholder

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If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it's a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there's nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention.

Fritz Scholder

The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.

Artist, Battle, Loses, Transcend, Winning

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You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

Boring, Canvascoming, Chance, Discipline, Down

I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.

Dark, Natural, Side, Sides, Things

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

Able, Everyday, Give, Giving, Thanks

Remember that life is short and death is long.

Death, Dreamer, Life, Life Is Short, Long, Remember

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Melina Marchetta

When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.

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Jonathan Haidt

The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

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Natalie Goldberg

Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our lifeforce, and then we go on carrying that person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, 'Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place. ' This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on.

Body, Cells, Long, Place, Roots, Springtime

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

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David Toop

Attention, Ideas, Nothing, Running, Say