Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.
It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with...
Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.
Beauty combined with wantonness frequently ends in the drawn twitch, fixed eye and helpless limbs of life-in-death. It is Nature’s revenge on the outraged body,—and do you know, Eternity’s revenge on the impure Soul is extremely similar?
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.
Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Then to the elements be free...
When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
Darkness will always be...its own master...
Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
So. Lie there, my art.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)
you are so delicious to my poetic side.
I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
