"Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work."
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"Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work."
"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God."
"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."
"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."
"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."
"Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream."
"There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work."
"You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing."
"Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work."
"You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm."
"When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal."
"I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination."
"There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination."
"I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?"
"Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party."
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
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