Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

What I've discovered is that in art as in music there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Be true to yourself help others make each day your masterpiece make friendship a fine art drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible build a shelter against a rainy day give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

When I make art I think about its ability to connect with others to bring them into the process.

The writer when he is also an artist is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Without freedom no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf if it's for others deserving of your anger your empathy.

The intoxication of anger like that of the grape shows us to others but hides us from ourselves.

My dear brothers take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen slow to speak and slow to become angry for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Lorne finally said Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

I always say I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans like up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

I was blessed because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.

My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that because we would have drifted apart.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing because you're helping others and in the middle of that you have to worry about yourself.

Although believers by nature are far from God and children of wrath even as others yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different even when we are in the dark with them.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.