"I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art,"

-- James Agee

#Art Quotes #Artist Quotes #Choices Quotes

“An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.”
“Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.”

Source : Song: For the Love of God, Album: The Far Country
“Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much...”
“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.”
“One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.”
“I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.”
“True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Baldwin (2004). “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings”, p.228, Psychology Press

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