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“The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.”
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“I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.”
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“When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.”
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“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.”
Source : "Contemporary Reminiscences". Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26, (p. 50), 1927.
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“I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.”
Source : "Sam Claflin, Finnick Odair: An Interview With The ‘Catching Fire’ Heartthrob". Interview with Dana Matthews, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013. 
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“Those that are little, little things suit.”
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“I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.”
Source : "Paddy Considine: 'Making this film felt like an exorcism'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.
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“We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."”
