"Creativity is an act of defiance."

-- Twyla Tharp

#Art Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.”
“For me, music gives a voice to fashion.”
“You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If you drop these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.”
“Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.”
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”
“My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera”
“He nuzzles my neck affectionately. "I love you. I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.”
“The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.”

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