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"I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt."
"The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another."
"I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'."
"There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines."
"Every man should be capable of all ideas."
"I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles."
"A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment."
"CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!"
"In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it."
"If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion."
"A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply."
"Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist."
"Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out."
"Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?"
"These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in."
"If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality."
"A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery."
"New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there wasn't anything comparable. Very few got their picture in a magazine, fewer made records. We have to stand back and let them get their footing. Hopefully they'll come to the realization that the most important thing is their work and how they conduct themselves."
"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
"By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life."
