Mirrors Quotes - Page 48

Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.

In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.

You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.

Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.

I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.

The Argentineans practice on the court for two hours a day, then they must practice in front of a mirror for two more hour saying 'I'm not guilty.'

If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

The Universe began when Nothing saw itself in the mirror.

[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people experience the consequences of their own acts. Property sets up fences, but it also surrounds us with mirrors, reflecting back upon us the consequences of our own behavior.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image.

It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.