"Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Sia Furler

#Successful Quotes #Artist Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.”
“For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must be alone or with someone who cares for them as I do.”
“Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.”
“Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.”
“And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.”
“My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.”
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”

Source : Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.328, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.”

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