#yin

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#artist #creative #creative energy #energy #failure

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#concentrating #conversation #doing #feeling #going

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anything #because #company #executive #fired

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#communicating #i #me #read #saw

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#ago #being #desired #i #long

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#displaying #famille #living #maximum #motives

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#day #happy #laughing #next #one day

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#bastards #grouch #i #just #mind

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny. ↗

— David Cross

#document #funny #hopefully #more #time