Charlie Chaplin on art
Charlie Chaplin98 quotes“Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.”
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I am an emotional cuss.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin Whomever lives, gambles with life.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin My only enemy is time.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin I am an artist, not a politician.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin Our tragedies are only as big as we make them.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin My tramp is made up of mimicry.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin The desire for peace is universal.
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To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
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C.R.WC.R.W I’m not the fighter I used to be no courage left in me in my safe place and on my own I’m trying to build a home.
Reece LennoxReece Lennox I watch you as there are words stuck inside my throat clinging to come out with the breaths that you take away.
Shiwanshi PandeyShiwanshi Pandey Poetry has its own language which can only be understood, when you read it with your heart and feel it within your soul.
Daniela SenickDaniela Senick You are definitely a glorious mess.
Aaron BellAaron Bell Beauty cannot be measured in megapixels.
Ankur SinghAnkur Singh You exist in colors that don’t exist, like memories that are mine but all yours.
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Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.
Leonard NimoyLeonard Nimoy The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
Jet LiJet Li But if you’re talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
Leonard NimoyLeonard Nimoy Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
Tara BrachTara Brach The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
Steven PressfieldSteven Pressfield All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
David BowieDavid Bowie