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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.
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I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.
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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.
