When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

Imelda Staunton

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Gregory Bateson

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Hermann Hesse

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

Joan Jett

He who is looking for wisdom is already wise; and he who thinks that he has found wisdom is a stupid man.

Leo Tolstoy

Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

Stephen King

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

E. M. Cioran

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Seth Lloyd

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.

Edward Young

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner