Chris Campanioni Quotes

It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

~ Chris Campanioni

The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.

~ Chris Campanioni

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.

~ Chris Campanioni

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

~ Chris Campanioni

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

~ Chris Campanioni

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.

~ Chris Campanioni

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

~ Chris Campanioni

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

~ Chris Campanioni

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

~ Chris Campanioni

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.

~ Chris Campanioni

Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.

~ Chris Campanioni

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.

~ Chris Campanioni

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

~ Chris Campanioni

To be a writer and political is a dangerous thing. To be a writer and apolitical is even more dangerous. Art is right, left; in truth, it has only one direction and that is forward.

~ Chris Campanioni

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

~ Chris Campanioni

Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

~ Chris Campanioni