"There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age Elizabeth also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art."

-- John F. Kennedy

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“Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done through equations and textbooks whereas artists go to art school and start making stuff; they fling paint at the walls, they dance and bash things together with giant bits of metal. Our society has come to think of science as being a very abstractified thing, and art as being a materialized thing.”
“Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.”
“There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
“The one significant change is in fact the second significant change”
“Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.”
“My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.”

Source : "Liberal America's last stand" by John Sayles, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.
“My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.”

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