#real

I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#artists #barber #bouncing #could #good

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#artist #biggest #biggest obstacle #certainly #chance

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#brought #drink #had #horrible #i

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#god #great #great relationship #i #pray

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#masses #much #perception #process #reality

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#function #heaven #hell #hell is #inferno

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#arts #best #difficult #film #had

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#chord #creative #melody #musical #our

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#finish #happened #how #i #important

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#because #being #failure #had #i