David Cerny Quotes & Sayings

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child - incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven't met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all. — Andrei Tarkovsky

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. — Lisa See

Mass media has convinced us to think that silence is only supposed to happen as a manifestation of supreme actualization, where both parties are so at peace with their emotional connection that it cannot be expressed through the rudimentary tools of the lexicon; otherwise, silence is proof that the magic is gone and the relationship is over (hence the phrase "We just don't talk anymore"). — Chuck Klosterman

Remember: Inspired Children Become Empowered Adults That Help Brighten Humanity!
Bullying Ben — Timothy Pina

The past had power. The past was a riptide. That's why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn't go in the water. — Lou Berney

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something. — Stephen Fry

If Daisy Buchanan's laugh is the sound of money, then a gimlet, well executed, is the color of it. It is just the thing when you are feeling impoverished, financially or spiritually. — Julie Powell

If you're healthy all around, you'll feel better, and if you feel better, you'll have a more positive outlook. It's all connected. — Bridget Moynahan

I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level. — Steven Soderbergh

Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself. — Hunter S. Thompson

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification. — Isak Dinesen

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances. — H.W. Brands

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel! — Joni Eareckson Tada