Shimansky Diamonds Quotes & Sayings

The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive. — Hans Hofmann

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. — Juliette Binoche

It is not that complexity is overrated, but is is overcomplicated; it is not that obscurity is too obscure, it's that the underside grows grungy if it isn't exposed to the change of air;
it is not that the language is exhausted, it is that we run down; it's not that the edge won't cut anymore, it is that the cuts are getting thinner;
it's not that art is artificial, it is that the artists get outright seditty; it's not that literary reputations are not inevitable, it's that they are invented;
not that theories are not beautiful, but that they are feeble — C.D. Wright

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin. — Sally Potter

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy ... — Leo Buscaglia

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity. — Robert Scoble

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too. — Sylvester Stallone

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else. — Matt Damon

The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God. — Jack W. Hayford

True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal. — Kate Morton