Marcel Proust Quotes
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
Quotes to Explore
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
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I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.
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True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.
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You want to know what scares people? Success.
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The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?
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People know that I'm going to do what's right.
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I once woke up at a random guy's house and i didn't actually know who he was.
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The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.
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The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.
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Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.
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The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.
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The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
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The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.
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A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
