Quotes
Authors
Tilda Swinton

"I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place."

Source : "Take In Tilda Swinton’s Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2015.

Tilda Swinton

#Art Quotes #Distance Quotes #Believe Quotes

“On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.”
“The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.”
“If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.”
“Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.”
“Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.”
“Everything I listen to is influential in some way.”
“When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.43, Broadview Press
“There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.”

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