![An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.](/assets/img/quote-photos/an-artist-has-an-obligation-to-tell-the-truth-that-the-true-horrors-of-hum.jpg)
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hero games play
Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero. Carlos Gonzalez
hero next-day may
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day. Carlos Ghosn
hero epic land
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought. Carlos Fuentes
hero heroines my-hero
My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know. Agnes de Mille
hero guitar guitar-hero
I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero! Aaron Yoo
hero murder villain
One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Charlie Chaplin
hero blood race
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought. Charles Caleb Colton
hero men thinking
My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work. Ricky Gervais
hero casting directors
Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business. Brent Sexton
dark men stupidity
Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity. Carlos Castaneda
dark men order
Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another. Carl Friedrich Gauss
dark wealth-of-knowledge greed
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. Aaron Swartz
dark everybody
We were blind, so everybody was dark to us, Clarence Fountain
darkness elements littles
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help. Alan Thicke
dark sides comedy
It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.
dark winter owl
I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15. Alan Titchmarsh
darkness stranger innocent
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness. Charles de Lint
dark night years
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.
artist firsts used
I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets. Carl Andre
artist over-you discovering-yourself
I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
artist wonderful lost
Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
artist trying environment
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
artist award best category pick piece winner
We have a sportswriter's award that we'd like you to give to one artist for one piece of art. It doesn't have to be a category winner or best of show winner, anything you like. You pick it.
artist buying care inspire learn might start
When you see a show like this, I think it will make you care a lot more about art. It might make someone go start painting, inspire them to learn about an artist or start buying art.
artists good great happened john lennon moments nina song songs
When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself. Jose Gonzalez
artist next form
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.
artist whole-life findings
Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.