Influences (xvi)

 

"What is precious inside you

does not want to be known by the mind

in ways that would diminish its presence."

Diane Long

Shakespeare (xiv)

 

"Go, drag the villain by the hair;

Nor age nor honour shall shape privledge. ---

For this proud mock I'll be thy slaughter-man;

Sly frantic wretch, that holp'st to make me great,

In hope thyself should govern Rome and me."

William Shakespeare 

Titus Andronicus act iv scene iv

Influences (xv)

 

“Power is not a means; it is an end. 

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution 

in order to establish the dictatorship. 

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

George Orwell

Influences (xiv)

 

"Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had."

Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

Influences (xiii)

 

"Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position."

Richard Diebenkorn

Influences (xii)

 

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

Edward Hopper