Chris Campanioni Quotes

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us with the most secure grasp on the real can pretend; can really be good at the performance. And of course I didn't know what was real; I only knew the camera was always on.

It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. In actuality, or in each reality, underneath it all - I mean, behind it - the answer lies in

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...