"The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements."

-- Anais Nin

#Artist Quotes #Choices Quotes #Elements Quotes

“I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.”
“The triumph of justice is the only peace.”
“I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.”
“I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!”
“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.”
“Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.”

Source : Bernard Brodie (1978). “The Development of Nuclear Strategy”, University of California LA Center for
“It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!”
“People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.”

You may also like:

D. H. Lawrence
Novelist
Djuna Barnes
Writer
Erica Jong
Author
Gore Vidal
Writer
Henry Miller
Writer
James Joyce
Novelist
Marcel Proust
Novelist
Otto Rank
Psychoanalyst
Philip Kaufman
Film director