Ben Okri Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
-
I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
-
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
-
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
-
The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
-
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
-
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
-
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
-
Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
-
After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
-
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
-
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
-
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
-
Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
-
I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
-
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
-
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
-
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
-
I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
-
...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
-
I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
-
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
-
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
