"Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself."

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Zhang Xiaogang

#Art Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Know Yourself Quotes

“The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.”
“Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night.”
“Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?”
“Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for. Anything we do to avoid punishment, everybody pays for. Everything we do for a reward, everybody pays for. Everything we do to make people like us, everybody pays for. Everything we do out of guilt, shame, duty, or obligation, everybody pays for.”
“It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.”
“I think oldest children have a different mentality or know that there were different expectations of them, and I was not only the oldest child - I was the oldest grandchild of 18 grandchildren. I definitely grew up feeling like there were a lot of people who expected me to do something. But it was a very conservative family, very conservative neighborhood. I'm talking mid- to late '60s when I was growing up there, and so if I had stayed in the Boston area, I think my life would have been radically different.”
“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”
“Do I dazzle you? - Edward Frequently - Bella”

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