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
- Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
- 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.
- The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
- A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
- The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
- 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 think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
- I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
- 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
- War is the continuation of politics by other means.
- Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
- At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
- It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
- I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
- The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
- The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
- In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
- Maria is the best reason to come home.