Richard Tuttle Quotes

#1. Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that see. Something goes from the eye to the soul without going through the brain.

Richard Tuttle

#2. Vampires inspire screams, not squees.

Kevin Hearne

#3. In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you can't get a real experience from the world.

Richard Tuttle

#4. Live free, ride free, die free.

Tillie Cole

#5. Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self.

Richard Tuttle

#6. The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.

Saint Sebastian

#7. In the earlier days I did most of the song writing by myself, and I got to a place in my life where I felt it was necessary to go outside my box and get some outside inspiration.

Jason Wade

#8. When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'

Ann Hood

#9. Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

Friedrich Holderlin

#10. I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.

Richard Tuttle

#11. How can I miss something with a physical ache and be absolutely terrified of it at the same time?

Samantha Towle

#12. Jewish shops that were still in operation in Molching. Inside, a small man was stuttering about, crushing the broken glass beneath his feet as he cleaned up.

Markus Zusak

#13. Never underestimate people.

James Carville

#14. In his 1865 lecture on "Value, Price and Profit," Marx illustrated luxury consumption as money "wasted on flunkeys, horses, cats and so forth." It is some measure of progress that the general population can now afford to keep cats.

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