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“If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.”
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“Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.”
Source : Erwin Blumenfeld, Hendel Teicher (1981). “Blumenfeld, my one hundred best photos”
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“If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.”
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“There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.”
Source : Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.227, Random House
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“Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.”
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“MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.”
Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2004.
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“It's not very often that I like new bands.”
Source : "Home entertainment" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2002.
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“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”