"The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business."

--

Source : 1972 Interview in The Paris Review, winter issue.

John Berryman

#Artist Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Worst Quotes

“Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.”
“The Finals are about a test of wills.”
“Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.”
“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.”
“We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences ... From War to Peace is not from the strenuous to the easy existence; it is from the futile to the effective, from the stagnant to the active, from the destructive to the creative way of life ... The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree.”
“As soon as I stood up on that hard surfboard, I went so fast and it was such an incredible feeling that I was obsessed, and I fell in love with it, so I never stopped. So, that's how it all started, being around people at the beach and other surfers and then finally getting an actual surf board, and falling in love with that feeling.”

Source : Source: www.hamptons.com
“It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.”
“In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.”

Source : "From Wrestling To Acting: An Interview With Dave Bautista". Interview with Phil Brown, www.cgmagonline.com. August 01, 2014.

You may also like: