Hedi Slimane Quotes
I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.
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Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.
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Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.
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Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
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I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.
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If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
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I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the world, but if you look at them from a slight angle there's more than meets the eye.
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Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!
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Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
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Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.
