Quote by Ben Okri
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. – Ben Okri

Other quotes by Ben Okri

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. – Ben Okri

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Beauty
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Dont despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. – Ben Okri

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best
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. – Ben Okri

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Courage
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Failure
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. – Paddy Ashdown

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Failure

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. – George Edmund Street

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Failure

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? – Daisaku Ikeda

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Failure

And in reality, I dont think its a real documentary. Its more a story of her life. Its a story of survival. Its a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure. – Maximilian Schell

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Failure

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We all love animals. Why do we call some “pets” and others “dinner?” – k.d.lang

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He who would search for pearls must dive below. – John Dryden

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Value

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. – Karl Kraus

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Psychiatry

Words of snow, which fell last year. – German saying

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Past