#tru

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know? ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #decisions #even #explain #i

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#coming #golden #golden age #instrument #making

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes. ↗

— Gale Sayers

#fighting #heroes #hoax #iraq #men

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there? ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#great #happy #how #many #songs

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#director #enough #hold #inspired #key

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#been #broken #definitely #proved #repeated

Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#band #been #ever #fighter #fights

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#combine #extremes #true #will #you

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#consideration #considered #ethical #generally #good