"It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge."

-- Henri Bergson

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“If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.”
“If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every move. When you paint for process, you listen to the magic of inner voices, you follow the basic human urge to experiment with the new, the unknown, the mysterious, the hidden. Process is adventure; product happens only within the parameters designed.”
“Putting my face in food is not a habit I have unless I'm really drunk.”
“for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall.”
“No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.”
“Greatness is its own torment.”
“Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.”

Source : Jules Feiffer (1978). “Ackroyd”, Avon Books

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