FKA twigs Quotes

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

Night is the mother of counsels.

I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.

If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

Silence is so accurate.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.

No matter how busy I am, I find time for dance.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.