Sufjan Stevens Quotes

Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

Sufjan Stevens

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• There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Money
  • Way

• 'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Difficult

• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • American
  • Parents

• I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Kids
  • Arts
  • Income

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • She
  • Father
  • Woman

• I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Bold

• We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Work

• Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Feeling

• The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Men
  • Alone

• Any slots at the senior level, including CEO or other slots, will be filled internally.

  

  Kenneth Lay
  • Senior

• I've got an allergy to looking too neat.

  

  Alexa Chung

• I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• A Rechabite poor Will must live,And drink of Adam's ale.

  

  Matthew Prior
  • Live

• My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations - things I could never believe possible - and then have to try to find solutions.

  

  Eric Walters
  • Believe

• Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • May
  • Success

• It occurred to me that memorials shouldn't be grand. If you really want to honor the memory of a tragedy, you shouldn't create areas of calm reflection. You should make people uncomfortable. Put them in the shoes of those who perpetrated and those who suffered. Then ask, would they be able to forgive in these situations?

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Honor
  • Shoes

• O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

  

  John Milton
  • Creation
  • Gods
  • Works

• If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

  

  Winona LaDuke
  • Earth
  • Support

• Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Reflection
  • Creation
  • Separation