"That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad."

“I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.”

“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.”

Source : "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers in Camera, 1981.

“You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.”

Source : "Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 10, 2004.

“Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.”

“Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.”

“A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.”

Source : "Fictional character: Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce". TV Series "M*A*S*H" ("The Interview", 1976), www.imdb.com. 1972-1983.

“Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.”

“They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.1, Jazzybee Verlag