LEAVE THE MIRROR AND CHANGE YOUR FACE.
LEAVE THE WORLD ALONE AND CHANGE
YOUR CONCEPTION OF YOURSELF. NEVILLE
A MYTH IS A TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF REALITY THROUGH WHICH ALL OF THIS SPIRITUAL ENERGY POURS.
IN A SENSE WE’VE WASTED OUR SOULS.
JAY PARINI
IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE. ALBERT EINSTEIN
EVERYTHING IS AN ENTRY POINT TO THE ABSOLUTE. KABIR
THROUGH the sweet melting of objectivity within, does our awareness blossom into repose in the absolute. SHAMBHU HEART
WOMAN is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention. CAMILLE PAGLIA
THIS WORLD IS IN DEEP TROUBLE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. BUT IT CAN BE SWIFTLY HEALED BY THE BALM OF LOVE. RUMI
TO BE ABLE TO WRITE A PLAY a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. ROBERT SHERWOOD
ART INCLUDES EVERYTHING THAT STIMULATES THE DESIRE TO LIVE.
REMY de GOURMONT
IT’S not that we have the solutions, sometimes we will, but we have observation, questions and ideas. An artist being given a problem will come up with new ideas and questions. Some of them will be ridiculous and some will offer unthought-of possibilities. MICHAEL SINGER 1945-2024. Sculptor
LIVING WITH APPRECIATION. SWAMI RAMANANDA
CLEAR THINKING REQUIRES COURAGE RATHER THAN INTELLIGENCE.
THOMAS SZASZ
INSANITY — A PERFECTLY RATIONAL ADJUSTMENT TO AN INSANE WORLD.
R.D.LAING
ONE OF THE MANY INTERESTING & surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
EVERY CHILD in the first years of life goes through an immeasurable degree of suffering. MELANIE KLEIN
THERE IS FOR MANY A POVERTY OF PLAY. DONALD WOODS WINNICOTT
THE CONDITION OF MAN . . . is a condition of war against everyone.
CURIOSITY IS THE LUST OF THE MIND. THOMAS HOBBES
. . . THERE IS NO OLD AGE OF THE SOUL.
A MAN IS ONLY AS GOOD AS WHAT HE LOVES.
SAUL BELLOW
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is think of anything that comes into your head,
then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each,
DON’T BOTHER ABOUT SENTENCES, in sections of two, three or four lines each. ALLEN GINSBERG
ACTION, REACTION, MOTIVATION, EMOTION all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
LOVE AND MAGIC have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. NORA ROBERTS
EVERYONE DIES BUT NOT EVERYONE LIVES.
I THINK that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I’ve written there is a thread of this: a man’s seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
ROD SERLING
JOHN BARTH 1930-2024. “THE SOT-WEED FACTOR””Where Three Roads Meet”.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS ALWAYS BAD NEWS.
THE FIRST OBLIGATION of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
EVERYONE IS NECESSARILY THE HERO OF HIS OWN STORY.
THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE IS NOT YOUR LIFE; IT’S YOUR STORY.
THOUGH LIFE’S TUITION IS ALWAYS RUINOUS, INEXORABLY WE LEARN.
PETER GREENAWAY 1942—“The Cook, The Thief & His Wife & Her Lover”.
MOST PEOPLE ARE VISUALLY ILLITERATE. Most people don’t understand images: they don’t understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.
WE have to change the educational curricula & put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing & looking is.
CINEMA, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
I’M SORRY — you know culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: It’s about seeing & knowing & about knowledge.
WE have more than enough deodorized, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let’s try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding.
I ALWAYS THINK that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
I THINK that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us and I think we must never forget that. After all even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.
WE ALL KNOW THAT WE’RE GOING TO DIE but we don’t know when. That’s not a blessing that’s a curse.
I DON’T BELIEVE in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it and it becomes as false as convention.