Curiale Quotes

#1. History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

Henry Steele Commager

#2. With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

Joseph Curiale

#3. My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Lisa Loeb

#4. Life as we know it is a death sentence.

Joseph Curiale

#5. Natasha tried to wedge herself into the conversation, but as usual the triangle would not widen into a square. p.302

Anthony Marra

#6. Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.

Joseph Curiale

#7. Be glad that you can recognize [your madness], for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.

C. G. Jung

#8. Writing is a kind of repository and can help create a space for the accommodation of new thoughts and feelings. If you don't write these stories down, your heart will be filled up and broken by them.

Xinran

#9. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. I exist in the world and live in my art.

Joseph Curiale

#11. Life has become a state of sensory overload.

Joseph Curiale

#12. The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone restores my faith in God.

Joseph Curiale

#13. The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

Joseph Curiale

#14. Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.

Joseph Curiale

#15. If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

Joseph Curiale

#16. Looking for the good in everything is equally as misguided as looking for the bad in everything.

Joseph Curiale

#17. One of the greatest acts of courage is having to face every day of life feeling unloved.

Joseph Curiale

#18. Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up ...

Joseph Curiale

#19. There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.

Joseph Curiale

#20. "A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."

Joseph Curiale

#21. The universe is one of continual creation, so therefore we too are continually creating. The form of our creativity is not as important the loving essence within a given form, because that love is the foundation of our creative expression itself, eternal and indestructible.

Joseph Curiale

#22. I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

Paul Fry