"The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness."

-- Loren Eiseley

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“At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.”
“Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.”
“If you're given source material that's as special and well-written such as the new project from Robert Kirkman, you would be foolish not to want to do that and not to be faithful to that to some degree.”

Source : Source: www.vulture.com
“If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.”
“I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.”
“It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.”

Source : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
“For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]”
“Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.”

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