Art Wolfe Quotes
It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.
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Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.
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The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
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As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me head of the Reformed church in Scotland, I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.
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It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
