The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.
That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.
It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.
A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.
I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
That's crazy," I say "In case you hadn't noticed, the whole world has gone crazy. It's time to adapt or die." "By throwing crazy at crazy?
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.
hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match,we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard to catch.
This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.
The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
Jesus' whole life was a lesson in Truth where the rubber meets the road." ~R. Alan Woods [2007]
