An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I think she’s too single for me, and she thinks I’m with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think. – Will Advise
- Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe. – Douglas Adams
- An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I am hear to say I love you.I am hear to say I feel you.I am hear to say I care for you.I am hear to say, I really do. – Debasish Mridha
- Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others. – Debasish Mridha
- How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
- You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
- 12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. – Leonard Ravenhill
- What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast. – Olivia Laing
- An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Every artist takes their final work to the grave. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- We’ve eaten, but he looks hungry, and experience tells me that crazy takes a lot of calories to sustain. – Emil Ostrovski
- CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets. – William Shakespeare
- An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Angry is always hungry to cook guilty. – Prabakaran Thirumalai
- A person might be living with numerous people; but, if he doesn’t find a companion who thinks similarly as he thinks, he is still alone – Rajasaraswathii
- It doesn’t matter what people thinks of us what is important is what God thinks of us – Sunday Adelaja
- A thousand pounds for clothes–when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! – Dodie Smith
- An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- To hear how much of a great human being you were -” even if you really weren’t -” open your ears at your funeral. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them. – Andy Warhol
- Some people respect some people only because some people respect them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it. – Bono
- I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know. – Leila Sales
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently – Jeanette Winterson
- When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. – GK Chesterton
- Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move. – Albert Einstein
- Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet. – Mohsin Hamid
- If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty. – Chris Rock
- The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks -• or something tells it -• that the remembering can be handled. – Robert Ludlum
- Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks. – Criss Jami
- The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right. – Christopher Hitchens
- If you thinks right the right things, then the right thinks will make the things right. – Sandip Thapa
- In essence, Satan doesn’t want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you. – Ralph Harris
- The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. – Christopher Hitchens