Jimmy Page Quotes
I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I'd get punched, spat at, terrible things.
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When a government gives special tax treatment to a few companies, that makes it hard for anyone else to compete on equal terms.
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I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'
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I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
