In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.
I like arts and crafts.
Writing and Painting are the same for me.
They think thee mad? I'll show thou mad, my lord.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
Photography is all about the perspective!
I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.
When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
I'm not really a fugitive.
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
Te Papa Museum is brilliant.
