"Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic."

-- George Steiner

#Imagination Quotes #House Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.”
“I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.”
“Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.”
“I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.”
“I started when I was 4, but I didn't play seriously until I was 8.”
“Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.”
“Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.”
“I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.”

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