"When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously."

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Source : "One original gangster". interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2010.

Takeshi Kitano

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“We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images , not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”

Source : Eidos: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture, and Design, No. 1, p. 31, 1950.
“The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.”
“Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!”

Source : "Bacall Blasts Twilight Vampires" by wenn.com, August 26, 2009.
“Not from his head was woman took, As made her husband to o'erlook; Not from his feet, as one designed The footstool of the stronger kind; But fashioned for himself, a bride; An equal, taken from his side.”
“I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.”
“Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.”
“Forget your troubles and just get happy.”

Source : "Song: 'Get Happy'". 1930.
“Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.”

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