No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
Art = a mad search for individualism.
You look at what China is doing to our country in terms of making our product. They're devaluing their currency, and there's nobody in our government to fight them. And we have a very good fight. And we have a winning fight. Because they're using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China, and many other countries are doing the same thing.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question. "
Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.