"genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions."

-- Gertrude Atherton

#Character Quotes #Long Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?”
“Why shouldnâ€™t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”
“It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.”

Source : "Sibelius: A Close-Up" by Jean Sibelius, London: Faber and Faber, (p. 94),
“What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?”
“One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.”

Source : Stanley Cavell (1979). “The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film”, p.90, Harvard University Press
“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.”
“Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.”

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