"Happiness is an angel with a serious face"

-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Art Quotes #Angel Quotes #Faces Quotes

“I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?”
“I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.”
“Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.”
“There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.”

Source : "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.
“Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.”
“To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.”
“Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.”
“Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.”

Source : Tony Hendra (1987). “Going Too Far”, Dolphin Books

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