Ofili Artist Quotes & Sayings

No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should. — Meg Cabot

The man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. — Tom Waits

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family. — Jessica Fortunato

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice. — Andrew Dost

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right. — Bette Davis

Focus on the solution, not on the problem. — Jim Rohn

When ink joins with a pen, then the blank paper
can say something. Rushes and reeds must be woven
to be useful as a mat. If they weren't interlaced, the wind would blow them away. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. — Marcus Aurelius

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores. — Ornette Coleman

I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me. — Emile Hirsch

This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel ... — Mikhail Bulgakov

the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark together, to be awake."

Ruhl, Sarah. 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater (p. 103). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition. — Sarah Ruhl

The second you give up is when you start to die. You have to fight to make it. — Joe Hart