"The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless. And also it's insulting. It's implying that the work is not an adequate account of itself. To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal."

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Jonathan Santlofer

#Artist Quotes #Talking Quotes #Insulting Quotes

“What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.”
“I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.”
“I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you breathe into fear it becomes adventure”
“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?”
“Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]”
“God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”
“The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.”

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