Medardo Quotes & Sayings

If we intend to take our occult studies seriously and make of them anything more than desultory light reading, we must choose our system and carry it out faithfully until we arrive, if not at its ultimate goal, at any rate at definite practical results and a permanent enhancement of consciousness. After this has been achieved we may, not without advantage, experiment with the methods that have been developed upon other Paths, and build up an eclectic technique and philosophy therefrom; but the student who sets out to be an eclectic before he has made himself an expert will never be anything more than a dabbler. — Dion Fortune

I have a soft spot for cashmere - even though that is not a particularly sustainable fabric, I do invest in quality, so it is sustainable in the sense that it is not just throwaway fashion and I keep it for a long, long time. — Suzy Amis

The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Because unity and friendship is so precious that even God wants to be part of it. — Noah Weinberg

You can't just stick with what you know, you have to evolve. — Vilmos Zsigmond

the future gives birth to the present — Allan Cox

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder ... — Medardo Rosso

I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year. — Kanye West

What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must ... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature. — Medardo Rosso

Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much. — Daniel Quinn

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind. — Ayn Rand

When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street. — Medardo Rosso

I don't tend to go out that much. — Dominic Monaghan

There is strength in numbers and those numbers come in pounds. — Mike Berry

Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way. — Edoardo Ponti

No historian can take part with
or against
the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. — Henry Adams