R.S. Thomas Quotes

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.

To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life - all of life - and experience it fully, openly, passionately, and purposefully

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

My joy burns brighter when I tend to the glowing hearth fires of home.

When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.

I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.

When I filter the sunshine in my life, I bask in the light of a transforming and inspiring reality.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

1999 was your last recorded output, and then Porter Ricks was put on hold until 2012.

If you spent your weekends in the clubs, you could see the change in the eyes of the people. They became merciless, in a way, in their desire to be entertained.

Maybe it's good that we are so slow with everything. We were saved from the damages that took place in the last 10 or 15 years in the scene.

We allow the sonic qualities themselves to develop their own momentum. It's a kind of humbling experience to put the sound first instead of the statement.

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.

We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids.

Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another.

If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

People love that monkey torture.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.

The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.