Maxfield Parrish Quotes

I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.

If an artist is going to take money from the taxpayers I guess he's got to be prepared to have the taxpayers dissatisfied with the product.

There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.

As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't know what they're going to do with it in the editing room, what they're going to cut out, which take they're going to use. You know, your control is very limited. As a director, it's ultimately your piece. You have a lot more responsibility, but you also have a lot more creative control. It's scary, but also liberating in a way.

Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

I can only play characters that I feel like are real people and in a complete way and in such a whole way that if I fake any aspect of it I will have failed them and literally they're slaughtered.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

I just have always wanted to shave my head. I think every woman should just do it once in her lifetime.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.

You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.