"You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write."

-- Benjamin Booker

#Writing Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Clarity Quotes

“Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment.”
“Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.”
“Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.”
“Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.”

Source : "Oh, girl: A Talk with Julie Taymor". Interview with Karsten Meinich, subtitlestocinema.wordpress.com. September 2, 2008.
“Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.”
“I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.”
“Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.”
“I was a precocious reader.”

Source : Author Q&A, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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