#art

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective. ↗

— David Simon

#came #detective #die #down #had

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. ↗

— William Allen White

#god #got #heart #justice #kills

The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I just couldn't see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game-- the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#math #mathematics #art

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. ↗

— O. J. Simpson

#complete #day #excuses #making #responsibility

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part. ↗

— O. J. Simpson

#adult life #famous #fight #had #i

I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#artist #artistic #comes #dad #does

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#art

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#earth #even #expect #extinct #extremely

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. ↗

— Louis de Bernières

#philosophy #art

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#directing #films #i #making #started