"Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom."

-- Ikkyu

#Spring Quotes #Tree Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to believe in the power of the culture as a whole: they believe in the revolutionary potential of economics, class struggle theory.. ..Therefore it's time to show that art means the power of creativity, and it's time to define art in a larger way, to include science and religion too..(1973”
“Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.”
“Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.”

Source : Marc Ecko (2015). “Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
“Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.”
“Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.”
“It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.”
“...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.”
“Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.”

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