Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first.
The creative habit is like a drug.
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
Everybody's human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.
If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you. . . he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.