#elf

I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#artist #eclectic #funky #i #myself

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#complete #counterpoint #involvement #itself #meaning

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#because #complex #deal #get #i

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#forget #fresh #i #make #make believe

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#activity #ancient #certainly #himself #his

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#been #cannot #ever #himself #limit

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored. ↗

— James Ellroy

#because #going #high #high school #i

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ↗

— David Bohm

#compulsive #conform #constitute #culture #distortion

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally. ↗

— David Bohm

#divisions #itself #naturally #out #saying

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#beyond #both #bounds #chosen #comes