Odilon Redon Quotes
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Quotes to Explore
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
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When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.
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Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.
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You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
