"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."

--

Source : Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.3, A&C Black

Edith Sitwell

#Truth Quotes #Believe Quotes #Long Quotes

“I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.”
“In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.”

Source : Newsweek, December 24, 1973.
“Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.”
“I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a particular artwork or project. The nonfiction novellas and nonfiction novel I have written play a role in my artwork as objects - which I will return to, but I write the books to exist autonomously.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.”

Source : "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.
“What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and turned into chronic disease were the body's only means of correcting the problem! The so-called "disease" was the only "cure" possible!”
“Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.”
“It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do”

You may also like:

Andre Kostelanetz
Conductor
Cecil Beaton
Photographer
Edmund Blunden
Poet
Osbert Sitwell
Writer
Rebecca West
Author
Roger Fry
Artist
William Butler Yeats
Poet
William Walton
Composer
Wyndham Lewis
Painter