"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures.……" — Ben Okri

"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

89 Quotes by Ben Okri

Ben Okri has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a…
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there…
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering…
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy:…
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole…
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe,…
I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their…
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who…
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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