Alex Prager Quotes

“I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where they really get nothing from it, and they want to move on to the next thing. I'd rather they be horrified, pissed off at me, extremely disgusted at how bad of an artist I am.”

Alex Prager

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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

Yiannis Chryssomallis
- Music
- Art
- Criticism
Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

E. Stanley Jones
- Parents
- Blood
- Birth
That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

Gary Oldman
- Character
- Together
- Teach
I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

Kara Walker
- Family
- Know
- Violence
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

Laura Riding
- Mind
- Poetry
- End
We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

Walid Jumblatt
- Sometimes
- Talk
- Tell