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“How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.”
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“I actually didn't even think about "Josie and the Pussycats" . I was like, "Oh yeah we kind of took some shots at MTV," but I think everyone had a good sense of humor about it. People either got that movie completely, or completely missed it and dumped all over it.”
Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
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“Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?”
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“I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.”
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“Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.”
Source : Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title
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“The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ or wisdom; and its validity depends not on any dramatic ecstatic visions but it belongs to man's (...) natural reason unspoilt by theologies of exclusiveness.”
Source : "Ramakrishna Mission" by Ram Swarup, (p.13), 1986.
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“Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.”
Source : "Gently does it?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005. 
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“Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.”
