"Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people."

“This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.”

“Let your love flow out on all living things.”

“I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.”

“There is no such thing as a false idea.”

“Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...”

Source : Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York

“You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.”

“Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.”

“I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."”

Source : "The Cribs' Gary Jarman Talks Johnny Marr Collaboration, New Album". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2009.