The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

Love works miracles in stillness.

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.