Gripping a baseball
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
A sincere artist
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
William Dobell
Art is not necessarily good for you
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.. in the past that was mixed up with other illustrative duties but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern. Art is not necessarily good for you or about communicating “good things”.
Antony Gormley
I understand madmen
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
I became an actor
I was lousy in school. Real screwed up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.
Natalie Wood
“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.”
