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For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can. ”
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless. ”
Believe that time is going to help you do what you want. ”
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ”
I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose. ”
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense. ”
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent. ”
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. ”
I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me. ”
We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art. ”