"An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it."

-- Morris Graves

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“... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.”
“To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.”
“Youâ€™re not going to suck.â€™â€™ â€˜â€˜Not at the guitar, anyway,â€™â€™ Shane said, deadpan. Claire punched him in the arm. â€˜â€˜Ow.”
“If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the specific location, to use decorative patterns from this location, that's a rule. That's a set of patterns that you can apply to all societies. But what gives rise or what comes out of each experiment is so radically different.”
“I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.”

Source : "Bret McKenzie of Flight Of The Conchords". Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2007.
“There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.”
“I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.”
“The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.”

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