Diego Rivera Quotes
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
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I like sleeping a lot.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
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I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.
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To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
