Portrait of Robert Moses
Oil on linen
Copyright Rose Adare 2014
“You spend portions of your life in a place where, it appears—maybe even to you— that you’re just spinning, because you’re saying: I can’t do that thing that will allow this other thing to happen. Your soul is going to win until you begin to poison it. I think giving up on yourself is a kind of poison. I think believing— whether it’s a good or bad thing—believing first what other people say about you, can begin to do that. There’s some slow stuff out there, too. Slow little allowances, and you turn around and you kind of go: Wow I’m sinking! And you can pull yourself out, but you have to watch out for that stuff.”
— Robert Moses