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"Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it."
Matthew Perry

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
Bob Dylan

"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"
Robert Fripp

"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."
Pierre Bonnard

"Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be."
Jon Bon Jovi

"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
Samuel Butler

"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."
Robert Collier

"The one who fetches the water is the one who is likely to break the pot."
African proverb

"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing."
William S. Burroughs

"Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are."
Robert Bresson

"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps."
James Thurber

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
Salvador Dali

"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organisation, not part of the fabric."
Phil Crosby

"I don't really analyze my stuff when I write. I write about stuff that I'm interested in, that I'm feeling at that particular time. When I stand back and look at the complete work, I might see themes that run through the whole film, but I'm not really conscious of it when I'm doing it."
Spike Lee

"Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece."
Maurice Jarre

"François Truffaut defined a great movie as a perfect blend of truth and spectacle. Now it's become bifurcated. Studio films are all spectacle and no truth, and independent films are all truth and no spectacle."
Howard Franklin

"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."
Andy Goldsworthy

"So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity."
Peter Weir

"The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures."
Emily Carr

"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images."
Steven Bochco

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
Henri Frederic Amiel

"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."
Sam Abell

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
James Dean

"They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three CEOs - it takes one guy with an idea."
Joe Grant

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
W. Somerset Maugham

"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
John Ruskin

"We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs."
Aaron Siskind

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