A Quote by Gerald Stern

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

Gerald Stern

Quote Topics

Artist Disturb Feel Intellectually Job Literally Peace Politically

Quote Author

Gerald Stern
American - Poet
Born: February 22, 1925

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

Jean Cocteau

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my hotel door. It's time to go to "Don't Disturb". It's been "Do Not" for too long. We should embrace the contraction.

Mitch Hedberg

Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.

Swami Vivekananda

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

D.T. Suzuki

We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.

Smith Wigglesworth

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

James Baldwin

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

Bill Maher

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

Dalai Lama

Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

May the peace of God disturb you always.

Anthony de Mello

When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.