"If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now."

--

Marc Chagall

#Artist Quotes #Jew Quotes

“Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.”
“And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?”
“Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
“I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!”
“I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff thatâ€™s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isnâ€™t free at all. So screw that.”

Source : Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.370, Regnery Publishing

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