Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.
Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!
There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!
If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!
An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!
As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!
It's exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that. That's an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.