"Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent."

-- Lee Strasberg

#Art Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.”
“Your thorns are the best part of you.”

Source : Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.39, Macmillan
“I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.”
“We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.”
“Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.”

Source : "Fictional character: Michael Arnold Travis". O Lucky Man!, www.imdb.com. 1973.
“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.”
“I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap and crude Marvel superheroes cartoons which basically consisted of taking stacks of the comic book art, taking parts of the art, pasting it down, extending it down into drawings and occasionally a new piece of art to bridge the comic book panels and limited animation and lip movement.”
“Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country...the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.”

Source : Statement made in World War II, as a commissar on the southern front, as quoted in "Leonid I. Brezhnev: Pages from his Life" by Academy of Sciences of the USSR, p. 49, 1978.

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