“I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.” PeopleFeelsTryingBelieveLittlesDifferentWantedBitsDifficultDoorsHonestFindingsLittle BitUnderstoodLabelsClownKnocking Author:Emeli Sande
“It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.” WantFilmArtistViewsWonderHonestPleaseUnderstoodPoint Of ViewViewersUnsure Author:Jean-Pierre Melville
“A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.” WayPersonsPhilosophySpecialHonestUnderstoodVagueGeneralities Author:Richard P. Feynman
“But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.” MayDoeSeemsLastsArtistHonestMinesUnderstoodGreedInvestingPainfulPainterBitterVanityBeing HonestMeritMy TimeConfessionClownImbecilityGoyaGiotto Author:Pablo Picasso
“The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.” MeanHonestAcceptanceUnderstoodConceptsCriticismBlindLoyaltyBlind AcceptanceHonest Criticism Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.” EndsWantedSpiritualityReligiousHonestUnderstoodBeing HonestComing OutReligious Life Author:Jay Michaelson