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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion and can never be without desire nor without fear no more than without sense.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Author: Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion and can never be without desire nor without fear no more than without sense.

Prudence is but experience which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.