"I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue"

“I do today what people won't, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can't.”

“The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.”

“W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.”

“When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.”

“Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.”

“Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you did not become upset, resentful or even ruffled. You simply observed that this person was saying or doing something cruel, as though you were calmly observing the scene in a movie. You simply would not be stressed by what would appear to others to be a highly stressful encounter. Stress and cruelty affect us as profoundly as they do only because we react to them resentfully.”

“How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.”

Source : Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.45, Penguin

“If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.