#Mean Quotes #Lost Quotes
“Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.”
Source : Theodor Reik (1956). “The Search Within: The Inner Experiences of a Psychoanalyst; from the Works of Theodor Reik”
“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
“My only day off is the day I pitch.”
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
“It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens to you and they're really not that interested. As a matter of fact, they hate the idea that anything really happens to you. They want you to be a genius and that's it.”
“This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.”
“I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.”
“Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far.”
Source : Vladimir Mayakovsky (1965). “Mayakovsky”
Billie Holiday Singer
Dalai Lama
Desmond Tutu Activist
Gautama Buddha Founding Figure
Heinrich Harrer Mountaineer
Mahatma Gandhi Lawyer
Matthieu Ricard Monk
Nhat Hanh Monk
Pierre Boulez Composer
