"Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?"

-- Walter J. Phillips

#Spiritual Quotes #Artist Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.”
“I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.”
“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.”
“I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2002). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
“What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor. I've gone to lesser known orchestras in Scotland and Sweden, Detroit, but I have enjoyed the places I've been, and had success. I like the close community relations, and to solve problems.”
“If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?”
“Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.”

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