"You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from."

-- Tatiana Maslany

#Struggle Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.”
“I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.”
“I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.”
“Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.”
“Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.”
“That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.”

Source : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”
“One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.”

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