Becoming mature is not important for art. Technical perfection is not relevant to art. Precision in art is only achieved by total duty of loyalty. Lo….

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something compl….

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shar….

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?.

I need someone who always wants more out of life. Like me - I'm just that way..

I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American..

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites peo….

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing….

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy..

The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The fi….

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God..

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of ….

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and m….

Love doesn't exactly come with an off switch..

There's nothing there — get rid of that!.

i like james patterson.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the produc….

Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them..

All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possi….

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by repro….

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well..