Camille Claudel Quotes

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

I try to put my own history in my work.

I would call myself the Pharrell of OVO. There are no rules for me.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.

My films are a personal reflection on the impact that the state - the system and the world - has on me.

I make films that are what they are. Some people like them, and some people don't.

'Iceman' covers a bigger scope than 'Long Day's Journey.' But they're both fabulous pieces of work. 'Iceman' is like a symphony. It's got all the movements, all these different voices. 'Long Day's Journey' is more like a beautiful string quartet.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

Watching something is a personal experience, and I think watching something that is dealing with a heavy subject matter, it's a personal thing.

After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.

I was blessed to have my son, ZZ, doing it; he managed to pull nothing but the truth out of me. Put all that aside, and you think how strange it is to watch a movie about some small, but important, part of your life.

'The Missing Picture' is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said 'I' in a film, so it is very personal.

All I know is what I've lived through, so this is what I know.

I don't want to tell fans what to think or what to believe or whatever, but at the same time, some things just hit you very personally.

We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

... people get confidential at midnight.

I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself.

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.