"Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of aÂ BraqueÂ painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes."

Source : Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.10, Univ of California Press

Ellsworth Kelly

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“Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.”

Source : When pressed by a gramophone company for a written testimonial, in Hesketh Pearson 'Beerbohm Tree' (1956) ch. 19; Beerbohm later insisted 'the immortalism must stand' when asked to make amendments
“No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.”
“The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.”

Source : H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.274, Cambridge University Press
“I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.”

Source : "Chuck Wepner". ipfs.io.
“His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.”

Source : David Morrell (2011). “First Blood”, p.13, David Morrell
“All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.”
“The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.”
“I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.”

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