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.
- I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
- 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.
- We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
- Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
- 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.
- 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.
- My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
- I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Best Quotes
- In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
- I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.
- Don't be another cliche, the world already has your idol, now be your own idol, be you.
- Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
- My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
- Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
- Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
- Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
- It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
- Marriage equality changed life for people.