Viggo Mortensen Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Writing, Artist

• One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo culture by Alix Lambert called The Mark of Cain. We've done books from Twilight of Empire, that actually has forewords by Howard Zinn and Dennis Kucinich and others, to books of poetry, photography, painting - all kinds of books.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Tattoo, Photography, Book

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Reading, Years

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

• I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, People, Important

• In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Artist, Editing

  "Time, Volumes 172-173". Time Incorporated, p. 1, 2009.

• On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Levels, Might

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Stubborn, Sometimes

• Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Strong, Book, Mean

  Source: www.progressive.org

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