#elves

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#give #home #involves #kind #leaving

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know? ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#become #beliefs #go #goes #just

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#act #also #ball #come #direct

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#common #everyday #indifferent #likely #only

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. ↗

— William Bernbach

#cleverness #clients #instead #job #kill

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ↗

— Ruth Bernhard

#i #make #me #never #photographs

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#beaten #dodging #few #getting #guys

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates. ↗

— Ian Botham

#bad day #day #field #had #people

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#female #had #main #now #ourselves