"The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself."

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Quentin Bell

#Art Quotes #Lying Quotes #Roots Quotes

“The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.”
“From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.”
“You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.”
“Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.”

Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.600, Library of America
“Never underestimate a clown with a book.”

Source : Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company
“I spend a lot of my downtime studying different businesses and learning from a lot of entrepreneurs when I'm not playing football. They can help me evaluate different ventures to see if they'll work. I was aggressive with my initial investments, trying to hit a homerun each time. But now, I'm stepping back and being more patient, giving them due diligence.”
“We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.”
“in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat”

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