The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.
Ernest GainesWhy is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Ernest GainesWe all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have
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