If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.
The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
To see far is one thing, going there is another.
. . . That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them
Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.
Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.