"I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky."

-- Dmitri Shostakovich

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Artist Quotes

“... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.”
“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.642, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
“I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.”
“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”
“In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.”
“Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.”
“God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.”

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