Unskinny Quotes & Sayings

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage. — Adam Duritz

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. — Michael Gerber

I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level. — Barbara Kruger

Passing one of these boats at night, and seeing the great body of fire, exposed as I have just described, that rages and roars beneath the frail pile of painted wood: the machinery, not warded off or guarded in any way, but doing its work in the midst of the crowd of idlers and emigrants and children, who throng the lower deck: under the management, too, of reckless men whose acquaintance with its mysteries may have been of six months' standing: one feels directly that the wonder is, not that there should be so many fatal accidents, but that any journey should be safely made. — Charles Dickens

One must act in painting as in life, directly. — Pablo Picasso