"Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable."

“The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.”

“Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.”

“If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.”

“I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'”

“I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.”

“Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning”

Source : Dick Van Dyke (2011). “My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir”, p.298, Crown Archetype

“Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them.”

Source : Noah Scalin (2016). “365 Expanded Edition: A Daily Creativity Journal”, p.209, Voyageur Press (MN)