Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.
I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it.
I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation o...
Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.
I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.
There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.
I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.
The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.
The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.
So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.
And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.
