Always waiting Quote by Samuel R. Delany

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

— Forrest Griffin

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity…

— Eric Gill

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not…

— Lawrence Durrell

We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted…

— Ellen Dissanayake

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

— Oprah Winfrey

Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and…

— Francoise Sagan

If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call…

— Anonymous

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's…

— LeRoy Neiman

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

— Lynda Obst

The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life,…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun