No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.
The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.