"I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?"

-- Alanis Morissette

#Art Quotes #Media Quotes #Weight Quotes

“Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.”
“Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.”

Source : Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain
“I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.”
“I am a slave to fashion. I love to get into what's hot and current when I dress myself or somebody else. Usually, it's someone else because I'm constantly working on finding the best looks for actors.”
“We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them...”
“Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.”
“No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.”
“God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth”

Source : Jacques Maritain, Jean Cocteau (2014). “Art and Faith: Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau”, p.47, Open Road Media

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