"Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Raw Materials Quotes

“Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2009.
“I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.”

Source : On being asked about the meaning of a painting by a dealer. Quoted by Andrea Bennett in the NewYork Times Book Review, 15 Sep 1991.
“Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.”
“Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.”
“I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.”
“I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.”
“The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

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