Spurrels Quotes & Sayings

The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped. — Yoko Ono

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play. — Janelle Monae

I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit. — Thomas Jefferson

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might. — Jasper Johns

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach