Quotes About Authenticity

Ç?plakt?k ç?plakl???m?z s o n s u z a de?iyordu

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.

Para decidir si algo está 'bien' o 'mal', tenemos una regla muy sencilla: la redacción debe ser verdadera. Debemos escribir lo que vemos, lo que oímos, lo que hacemos.

Pour décider si c'est "Bien" ou "Pas bien", nous avons une règle très simple: la composition doit être vraie. Nous devons décrire ce qui est, ce que nous voyons, ce que nous entendons, ce que nous faisons.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

To appreciate a certain amount of material comfort," Gideon continued, "does not mean you are not a real person." Phil

Nate might be a poor dumb bastard, but at least he wasn't a dishonest, fraudulent dumb bastard, and that ought to count for something.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive....and go do that.

Exhibitions are precisely what we shouldn't trust, because they are so seductive. We go into a room that we can only walk through in a certain way, and there's a certain lighting scheme, and it might smell a certain way. Whereas when we read something on a blog, we do that in our own home, in the conditions that we have chosen, and we can determine how our body is situated. We just can't do those things in an exhibition.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

I'm aware that I have a distinguishable style. It's not something that I set out to do, but this is how I write. I or anyone else would be foolish to try hard to not write like themselves.

In the restaurant of life, the false Salafi can do no more than eat the menu.

The believer's greatest argument is his face. True religion lights up the face; false religion fills it with insecurity, rage and suspicion. This is perceptible not only to insiders (Muslims), but to anyone.

par quelle cécité les hommes s'empêchent-ils de vivre leur vérité?

Kalau Kristen jangan kebarat-baratan, kalau Islam jangan kearab-araban

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.