Shantalles Studio Quotes & Sayings

He looked once more across the ragged band before him, a family of sorts, pack rather than herd, a band of brothers who knew what lay at the core of him because they shared it, killers all. He looked down at the crimson weapons in his crimson hands and knew that moment of peace which happens when a thing surrenders to its nature. — Mark Lawrence

People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism. — Invader

Having multiple identities (though not multiple personalities) is, he believes, conducive to happiness. This runs counter to the prevailing belief in the United States and other western nations, where specialization is considered the highest good. Academics, doctors, and other professionals spend lifetimes learning more and more about less and less. In Iceland, people learn more and more about more and more. I — Eric Weiner

You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. — George Orwell

Jean Cocteau--my artist friend since our early days--let himself be guided throughout his full life by the principle:

"I love to love.
I hate hatred."

With all my heart I agree with that, and I have never lost faith in the good. This is a source of strength for my work.

Once Cocteau said to me: "Your work contains the fire of the image of man--like the Phoenix . . . "

I believe in this light. It will not be extinguished. — Arno Breker

It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence. — Paula Cole

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything. — Swami Vivekananda

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. — Juvenal

I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing. — O. Winston Link