Orson Welles/final Years 1970-1985

Famous quotes containing the words orson welles, welles, final and/or years:

    A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
    Orson Welles (1915–1984)

    Everybody denies I am a genius—but nobody ever called me one!
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    [Man’s] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun, rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    ... it is only after years and years that you can speak of penury in the midst of opulence, of hunger in the midst of almost sinful plenty. You must never speak of the immediate experience unless and until you have learned its consequent value. Otherwise you grow old in bitterness which is barren and futile....
    E. M. Almedingen (b. 1898–?)