Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Every act is a visual judgement.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

Sometimes the best way to uncover a new goal or dream is to step back, make space, and allow what's next to find you.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

Christian! His parents had nine months to to think of a name, and the best they came up with was Christian!? My parents had nine months and they didn't call me Jew!

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.