"I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go."

-- Mika

#Artist Quotes #Creating Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Yeah the appetizer, that's the food we eat before we have our food...No no you're thinking of dessert, that's food we eat after we have our food.”
“Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.”
“I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.”
“I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.”
“Most producers today are little bedroom producers and then they get their record and get signed by an agency and go on the road, but they have no idea about DJ-ing. They have no culture about where that music comes from and they just stand behind the booth, put their hand in the air, and play all the hits.”
“I definitely feel I do have God in my corner.”
“Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Complete Collection (with the book "The Power of the Spoken Word")”, p.13, Florence Scovel Shinn
“One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.”

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