Kit Williams Quotes

One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.

The secret of progress, the perpetual satisfying of wants followed by the springing up of new wants, is the secret of individual unrest and disappointment.

I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever.

I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

When I wear jewelry it needs to really mean something.

I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?