It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

William Friedkin

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Gertrude Stein

Judge not by the eye but by the heart.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

Jeff Foxworthy

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Ambrose Bierce

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to keep my creativity alive, I just try to enjoy life to the fullest.

G-Dragon

People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Jerry Saltz

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Bob Kerrey

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Pauline Kael

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Lawrence Durrell