“You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.” Quote by Howard Stern
“To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.” IfsBeautifulLanguageNarrativeBrokenness Author:Alice Sebold
“I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.” My OwnMusicCasesFaultsConvincedComposerArrogantListenersImpatientVerdi Book:On Music Source: On Music
“When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.” EyeMusicianSingersBalletOperaChorusStaging Author:Placido Domingo
“Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.” SeemsPaintingHabitActivitySeriesBoundsBoredomBoresRecurring Author:Rene Magritte
“I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.” LostCausesExistenceIllusionConclusionDrag Author:Rene Magritte
“An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.” NamesObjectsFunction Author:Rene Magritte
“No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.” NamesObjectsStuckSuits Author:Rene Magritte
“I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.” ArtEnoughPlayLostExpressionWorthyArtisticInsecurityGood EnoughChildlikeDisconnectedArtistic Expression Author:Elisabeth Shue