“I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.” Quote by Daryl Hannah
“I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm going to do it. On the other hand, if something doesn't really hold a candle, I'm going to put my efforts where I can be the most effective.” IfsWorldI CanHandsOpportunityEffortMaterialsDirectorsCandle Author:Daryl Hannah
“Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.” BelieveChildrenImportantIdeasTaughtHabitDon't Believe Author:Jasper Johns
“Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.” Has BeensArtRealityMightAbleFantasyChildhoodInvolvedGet Away Author:Jasper Johns
“We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.” StylePoetTraditionBillionsExperimentsCombinationListenersSpicesMeter Author:Juan Felipe Herrera
“ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.” MiddleEastViolentMiddle EastIsisJihadVanguard Author:Michele Flournoy
“That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.” WayDoeCertainAttentionVisionPaintingCivilizationFunctionPaidOrganize Author:Jasper Johns
“I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought.” ThinkingWayDifferentRemainsOneselfTricks Author:Jasper Johns
“It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferencesShareMoodOne WayDescribe Myself Author:Jasper Johns
“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.” KnowsOrderEvilWinningKnow HowVirtueLimitsTrue MeaningGood EvilLife Has No Meaning Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.” PeopleWells Author:Jasper Johns