A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Quote by Orson Welles
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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Orson Welles Quotes
- I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
- Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
- I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
- Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
- My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
- Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
- If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
- A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
- Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
- I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Best Quotes
- I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
- You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.