Ray Quotes

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much love, life, beauty and peace. Enjoy your stay with the fellow beings.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Begin doing what you want to do now.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.

Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.

To be the best and stay there, sweat is necessary.

You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life.

True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.