"There is no re-inventing the wheel."

-- Sean Penn

“When I was a kid my father would read Neil Simon plays with me when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories. All of these old plays like The Odd Couple and Lost in Yonkers - funny but corny plays about Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century.”
“I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.”
“The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.”
“I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.”
“Art deals with profound and simple moods.. ..Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist )Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it.. ..he will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.”

Source : The Globe and commercial advertiser (newspaper), p. 8/10, February 20, 1913.
“Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.”
“No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.”

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