Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.
[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.
[I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a beautiful blue heron flew over the brook. Nature can make me cry faster than anything.
[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!
Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience.
When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop
How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.