"When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind ."

“When you develop an entire feature length film from scratch the challenge is developing an entire feature length film from scratch! - the world and all of it's characters need to be created. There is no story/plot - all you have is a blank sheet of paper.”

“There is a secret hippie within me.”

“Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.”

Source : Source: gothamist.com

“My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.”

“Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.”

“Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.”

“Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.”

Source : Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press

“All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.”

Source : "On my painting". Republished text of Beckmann's public speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art' in London, July 21, 1938.