Lumps Quotes

Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.