Italo Calvino said the artist reveals that bit of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. Art is all about the art of lying. The artist's imperative is to create a supreme fiction, a lie that, paradoxically, discloses a truth. It's precisely this kind of paradox that Calvino and Fellini adored.

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

Joe Donnelly

Publicity is the life of this culture -- in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive -- and at the same time publicity is its dream.

John Berger, Ways of Seeing, ch.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Shirley Knight

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

William Blake

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

Anton Chekhov

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

Christopher Parker

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

Denis Norden

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

James Cash Penney

Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

Proverb

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Hermann Hesse

My painting does not come from the easel.

Jackson Pollock