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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Love is a beautiful dream.
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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
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The sense of duty pursues us ever.
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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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For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.
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I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.
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I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.
