"I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself."

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Source : "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, 2010.

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“Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.”
“How Superheroes Make Money: - Spider-Man knits sweaters. - Superman screw the lids on pickle jars. - Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons.”
“What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on stage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that." If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know.”

Source : "Maria Callas: The Callas Conversations" by Maria Callas. an Interview in Paris with Lord Harewood for the BBC (April 1968). EMI Classics DVD, 2004.
“A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”
“I always held my flower in a clenched fist.”
“This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.”
“The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.”

Source : Steven Heighton (2010). “Afterlands”, p.322, Vintage Canada
“If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.”

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