Art Quotes - Page 537

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

He who wishes to fight must first count the cost

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.

Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment.

An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that's perfectly all right, that's the nothing, there's nothing new in the world, there's nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.