David Shields Quotes
Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
David Shields
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine
My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
Gary Clark Jr.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
Rachel Bloom
Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
Yoko Ono
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson
When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
Kat Graham
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'Connor
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Bashar al-Assad
You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
Gabriel Iglesias
