"People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Devendra Banhart

#Art Quotes #Successful Quotes #People Quotes

“But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.”
“My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.”
“The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.”
“Time is not so all-erasing as we think.”

Source : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.177, Sheba Blake Publishing
“These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.”
“Move at your own pace, don't be afraid - and know that it's going to be okay.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.”
“Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.”

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