Quatrefoil Pattern Quotes & Sayings

I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers. — Tina Modotti

It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment. — Tony Kushner

I don't work with people who ask me questions. — Leos Carax

Why hadn't she been a detective instead of a goddamn stupid third-class civil rights lawyer? She hated the law. It took an aggressive, assertive personality. She didn't have it. She had a sneaky, sly, shy, squamous personality. She had French diseases of the soul. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. — Kate Chopin

No challenge is bigger than us! — Osama Bin Noor

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each. — Darin Strauss

I believe in the right to life. — Jan Brewer

She said to me, "I don't know what life is anymore, it seems mean to me. I always wanted to be a mermaid but I never saw the sea. — Renee Thebeau