John Quotes

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.

To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

Find your own technique.

Be spacious. Open to listen and feel the other without prejudice.

Flow. Be adaptable. Be sensitive like water, feel the other so you can attune and harmonize with your partner.

Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner.

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.