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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I’ve ever done. It’s a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I’m visiting.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.