Tell them that everything in their life is going to have to bend to His will. Repent and believe.
You can't make people respond.
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
It is well known, widely known that the US President-elect [Donald Trump] has publicly spoken in favour of normalising Russian-American relations. We cannot but support this. Of course, we understand that it will not be an easy job, taking into account the degree to which Russian-American relations have degraded. But we are ready to cover our part of the way.
I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.
When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!