Satish Kumar Quotes
We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music.Satish Kumar
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss -
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali -
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
Abbas Kiarostami -
You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
Patrick Wilson -
Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
Hale Irwin -
It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
Washed Out
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
Oscar Levant -
For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
Nathan Sawaya -
This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
Felix Baumgartner -
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler -
Artists talk in 'art speak.'
Damian Loeb
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
A. R. Rahman -
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis -
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.
Eavan Boland -
It's not easy being Hugh Jackman, but he wears the attention better than anyone I've ever met. He treats every person he meets the same and finds joy in everything he does. The lesson I've learned is that if you work incredibly hard, and you're nice to everybody, you'll be fine.
Laura Donnelly -
When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?
Edd Byrnes
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
Marcus Aurelius -
There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.
Amy Gerstler -
Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.
Elizabeth Ashley -
We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.
David Jeremiah -
We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music.
Satish Kumar