Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996

Topics

CreativeProcessArtistGoalNothing

In college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt I could be experimental and hone my craft in that genre, so I started there.

Melina Matsoukas

LoveMusicTimeCollegeCraft

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

John Mortimer

TragedyMinuteThousandPlayedFarce

I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.

Matt Dillon

DanceSchoolFunClassUsedKids

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.

Michael Jackson

CuteChildStartThinkGrowYou

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

MenWomanIntelligenceIntelligent

In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.

Rivers Cuomo

LoveMusicHeartPeopleMeSick

I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking, 'Now, this is a symbol, I need one, I need an Hermes scarf,' which actually now I'm quite embarrassed about. Most of the time I twist it so much that no one notices it, and just bundle it around me.

Lou Doillon

TimeDayMeThinkingScarfNever

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

Jon Taffer

CollegeBehaviorAnthropologyOur

I've always been a stubble man; I don't do clean-shaven.

Jonas Armstrong

ManAlwaysBeen

I had a really good time in my 20s and 30s.

Cillian Murphy

GoodTimeGood TimeReallyHad

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

Apolo Ohno

PassionRespectGreatAmazingCool

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

ChangeSweetThingsAll Things

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