Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLESI have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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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.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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