Ella Leya famous quotes

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.
-- Ella Leya

#Empathy #Morality

That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.
-- Ella Leya

#Artist #Unique #Messages

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.
-- Ella Leya

#Profound #Vices #Desert

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
-- Ella Leya

#Knives #Tongue #Heal

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.
-- Ella Leya

#Destiny #Stubborn #Way

My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.
-- Ella Leya

#Keys #Blue #Hands

The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.
-- Ella Leya

#Dirty #Humanity #Shadow

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.
-- Ella Leya

#Tea #Noses #Conversation

That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.
-- Ella Leya

#Artist #Unique #Messages

Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.