If the crowd is full of assholes, it's no fun. If the crowd is cool, it's great.
'Fahrenheit 911' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
All creation is in the art of seeing.
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat. , Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit. ]
If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.