"The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician"

“I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.”

“Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.”

Source : In Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War' ii.43, 3 (translation by Rex Warner)

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

“For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts.”

“A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.”

“The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.”

“My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris