"The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost."

-- William Faulkner

#Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.”
“We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.”
“Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing,”
“Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.”
“A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.”
“Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered”

Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.64, University of Chicago Press
“One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.”

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