"The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Art Quotes #Men Quotes #Skills Quotes

“The heart is a gate-less gate to divinity. Move to the heart. We are all hung up, stuck in the head - that is our problem. The only problem is that we think too much. There is only one solution - get down from the head to the heart. All your problems will disappear. Problems are created by the head. The heart is innocent. The heart is a fountain of love.”
“A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.”
“Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.”
“Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I was talking about the art from...if you look at the art from George Clinton albums there are two or three artists he worked with...I made her listen to my album too so all the images are from jokes I made. I wanted it to look like the thoughts that are coming out of my brain which is what comedy is anyway.”
“It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love out, but do not worry and expect any in return, and you will be happy and contented.”

Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.11, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.”

Source : Genevieve Taggard (1938). “Collected Poems: 1918-1938”
“New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.”
“Life is not life unless you make mistakes”

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