Veruschka von Lehndorff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.
I am really not interested in the cinema.
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

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