"Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use."

-- Henri Matisse

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“Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.”
“I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2008.
“I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.”

Source : "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
“Most trails can be fairly simple.”
“What's love got to do with it?”
“Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.”

Source : "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.
“The Italian economy has been held back for decades.”

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