"True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind."

“When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.”

“The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.”

Source : Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.6, Beacon Press

“I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.”

Source : "John King, USA" with John King, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.”

“You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.”

“It's been nice, actually, to keep in touch with a lot of the people and families that I've written about. Like with the kids I was just writing about from Guatemala, who survived being kidnapped and fleeing violence, it was nice to just sit down in their living room and play bingo with them, go to dinner with the family. And sometimes not thinking about it in such a mechanistic "I am now coming to report and get what I need" way, but just spending time, helps you see a more natural version of who they are too.”

“If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.”

“And again, the political economy in that particular environment means that, if my attraction ever coheres as a thought at all, it's never going to be verbalized, because that will mess up the education environment, it will mess up everything. You cannot claim to be doing good if you're moving in that direction.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net