“Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.”

— Kevin Rowland

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English singer-songwriter 1953

Ron Finley American fashion designer and urban gardener

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“Titles are like clothes: they do not make the man.”

Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet

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Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

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“A far more important lesson to learn from artists is not that they fail, but that they prevail. Artists make. Artists do.”

Will Gompertz (1965) British journalist

Think Like an Artist (2015)

“We clothe ourselves in flame
And trade new myths for old.”

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And trade new myths for old.
The Greek gods christen us
With ghosts of comet swords;
God smiles and names us thus: "
"Arise! Run! Fly, my Lords!"

“We do not torture.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

November 7, 2005. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/07/bush.torture.ap/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4415132.stm
2000s, 2005

“Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.”

Joseph Addison book Cato

Act III, scene v.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Context: See they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men,
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.