#lt

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ↗

— Max Ernst

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#am #career #certainly #chance #follow

Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate. ↗

— Andrew von Eschenbach

#decade #dense #difficult #grown #information

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it. ↗

— Julius Erving

#age #basketball #because #difficulty #eight

[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection. ↗

— James A. Michener

#money #wealth #freedom

I realised with a prickle of discomfort why he bothered me: it was not so much that I resented the hearty backslapping bonhomie of English upper-class gentlemen, for I could tolerate it well enough in Sidney on his own. It was the way Sidney fell so easily into this strutting group of young men, where I could not, and the fear that he might in some ways prefer their company to mine. Once again, I felt that peculiar stab of loneliness that only an exile truly knows: the sense that I did not belong, and never would again. ↗

— S.J. Parris

#culture #identity #men

It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#been #enhanced #felt #five #freedom

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#away #back #been #come #feel

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that. ↗

— Albert Finney

#bothered #celebrities #feel #felt #i

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#culture #everyone #how #i #i think