#mirrors

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders. ↗

— David Knopfler

#always #away #best #bull #creative

If the best of friends are those who reflect you, nothing helps your popularity like being secluded in a house of mirrors. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #mirrors #reclusiveness #friendship

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not? ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#assume #back #could #feeling #having

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#hated #house #i #literally #mirror

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. ↗

— Aberjhani

#art-and-the-soul #creative-genius #creativity #famous-quotes-by-famous-poets #mirrors

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#into #mirrors #purpose #turn #whole

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#mirrors #narcissism #technology #love

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. ↗

— Chuck Close

#art #artists #certainly #does #find

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#crash #full #here #i #live

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet. ↗

— Chris Brown

#around #dream #fun #having #i