“Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.”
Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician
Woman of Heart and Mind: A Life Story (2003)
“Good painting is not produced by any unintelligent following of inspiration or temperament.”
The Artist Speaks (1951)
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Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist
Quote of Degas in conversation with George Moore, later quoted by Moore in Impressions and Opinions (1891)
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“It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 176.
“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”
Iris Murdoch book The Nice and the Good
The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 14, p. 127.
Murdoch attributed this opinion to her character Kate Gray. It was not her own.
“Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: The Quotable Fulton Sheen: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom, and Satire of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
“Where people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work.”
David Ogilvy book Confessions of an Advertising Man
Source: Confessions of an Advertising Man