Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we're open-minded people, and I think we're almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom.
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
People lump us into the nu-metal category, and there might be a hint of that stuff, but if you really listen to a nu-metal band and then listen to Slipknot, it's so apples and oranges that it's retarded.
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
All of us are much more human than otherwise.
We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.
The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
