Rob Chapman famous quotes

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.
-- Rob Chapman

#Real #Ideas #Interesting

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.
-- Rob Chapman

#Writing #Order #Opposites

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.
-- Rob Chapman

#Years #Trying #Principles

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.
-- Rob Chapman

#Thinking #Dancing #Architecture

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.
-- Rob Chapman

#Art #Writing #Thinking

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.
-- Rob Chapman

#Rocks #Years #Conservative

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

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I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.