"It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!"

-- Alexander Payne

#New York Quotes #Black And White Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I think just being a '90s kid - I was not a Backstreet Boys girl, I was definitely into NSYNC.”
“Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed, the opportunity that is offered. How we make use of this opportunity depends upon the degree of our participation, how much we are prepared to give ourselves to the work that needs to be done, to the freedom that needs to be lived.”
“When we were trying to get the money together for the film, one reason that was consistently given for not investing in it was that everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.”
“Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.”
“I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.”
“The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart
“I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best”
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”

Source : Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 19

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