"Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling."

-- Herbert Read

#Artist Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were people who were very narcissistic and I thought since I lacked narcissism to become an actor because that's what it took. It was more of a social experiment for me to walk in the shoes of other people that I found interesting.”

Source : "Interview with Falcon Rising star and martial artist Michael Jai White". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. September 8, 2014.
“When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.”
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
“Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?”
“What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.”
“If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.”
“The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.”

Source : "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.
“A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.”

Source : Lee Lockwood, Daniel Berrigan (1972). “Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood”, New York : Random House

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