Sam > Sam's Quotes

“He knew now that corruption is inherent in power, and, even worse, stupidity!”
― Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father

“The most skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind.”
― Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father

“All the knowledge he had acquired in his search for truth, in his ceaseless effort to break through the disguises raised my men's stupidity now lay in his hand...”
― Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father

“Painters know that material needs are relative; and that the satisfactions of the mind are absolute.”
― Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father

“… a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“the moment you follow someone else, you cease to be your own leader.”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“… art was a process of evolution - not revolution...”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“… to be an artist is to assert one's will, but to be a woman is to relinquish it.”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“… painting was not so much an art movement as a mission to free people from material concerns.”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“… his hands got in the way of his art, preventing him from recording sensation as quickly as he experienced it.”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“… one must destroy in order to create.”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“… the poetry lies in the crude handling of the paint rather than in the subject matter.”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“… the poetry lies in the crude handling of paint rather than in the subject matter.”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“It's as if a thousand different sensations have been merged, but just barely, and only by a superhuman act of creativity.”
― Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock

“The pit of melancholy was a bottomless one, and he was descending fast, falling further away from the good times. Such times often seemed tantalisingly within reach; he could see them, going on all around him. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“… you were better making history than studying it.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Women give more than men; young people more than their elders; people who appear to be of the most modest means seem more generous than the affluent looking.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“The wicked at heart probably know something.”
― Woody Allen, Without Feathers

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“We are adrift alone in the cosmos wreaking monstrous violence on one another out of frustration and pain.”
― Woody Allen, Side Effects

“… death is not in opposition to life but a natural part of it...”
― Woody Allen, Without Feathers, Getting Even, Side Effects