Stefano Benni famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.
-- Stefano Benni

#Art #Escaping #Everyday
If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.
-- Stefano Benni

#Peace #Angel #Fever
Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.
-- Stefano Benni

#Cutting #Destiny #Cake
Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.
-- Stefano Benni

#Plato #Being In Love #Bowie
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
-- Stefano Benni

#Realist #Optimist #Cynic

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.
Our words can have power that we donâ€™t think we have in everyday life. Anyone can make a difference!
Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.
If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

Stefano Benni famous quotes

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