"Today was a reality check. Yesterday's rally was over-exuberant."

“I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is really a character to play. It's fun to be able to have a character and have a director that can direct you into a character. I'm just so happy that I got a good role. I don't care if it's bad or if it's good, and I don't care if it's drama or comedy. They are just so rare to come across.”

“No happy man bases his decisions on fear.”

“When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.”

“I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.”

“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”

“Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”

Source : Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

“They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'’ and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’”

“No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.”

Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.142, Macmillan