Adam Phillips Quotes

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

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• If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • True
  • Know
  • Bigbang

• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • True
  • Wrong

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Me

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• Competing in London would be a dream come true.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • True
  • Dream
  • London

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Art
  • History
  • Tradition

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Real
  • True
  • Memories

• A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perception

• Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • True
  • Think
  • Kind

• Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• It's not to anybody's best interest to think about how they will be perceived tomorrow. It hurts you in the long run.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Long

• Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

  

  Socrates
  • Fall
  • Friendship
  • Continue

• True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Movement
  • Exist
  • Phenomenon

• I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it.

  

  Anna Sui
  • People
  • Success
  • Focus

• The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Art
  • True
  • Secret