Quotenik
categorized under:

blessed

“Luckily, I’m blessed with a well-developed sense of absurdity—it’s what saved me.”

more info

source: “No More Boring Art: John Baldessari’s Crusade,” by Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, October 18, 2010, 42–49.

category: ,

medium: magazine profile

“Blessed is the man who has found his work, blessed is the man to whom his work appeals with so much interest that he goes from it with a longing to be able to finish what he has been at, and comes back to it with a prospect that now he shall be able to accomplish what time and perhaps fatigue would not allow him to proceed with the day before.”

more info

source: The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries (New York: Catholic Summer School Press, 1907), 125.

view on Google Books

category: , , , ,

medium: nonfiction

notes: Thomas Carlyle wrote "Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness." And Elbert Hubbard wrote "Blessed is that man who has found his work."

Quality Quote Collecting