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Orson Welles Art Quotes - (8 quotes)

Orson Welles - From the Freedom category:

The greatest enemy of art is the absence of Limitation. (Orson Welles)

Orson Welles - From the Loneliness category:

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. (Orson Welles)

Orson Welles - From the Prosperity category:

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. (Orson Welles)

Orson Welles - From the Quotations category:

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. (Orson Welles)

Orson Welles - From the Struggle category:

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock. (Orson Welles)

Orson Welles - From the Success category:

I started at the top and worked my way down. (Orson Welles)

Orson Welles - From the Travel category:

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. (Orson Welles)

Orson Welles - From the Uniqueness category:

I passionately hate the idea of being "with it." An artist has always to be out of step with his time. (Orson Welles)

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