"The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do."

-- Roger Rosenblatt

#Wisdom Quotes #Art Quotes #Powerful Quotes

“What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority”

Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.
“Don't seek to be published, seek to be read.”
“If success is my drug then I've been on a chronic overdose all my life.”
“If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.”

Source : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.170, Penguin
“I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.”
“It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith.”

Source : Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.71, Random House
“The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.”
“As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.”

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