Lucretius Quotes

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

My favorite project is always the next one.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new.

It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.