| "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "Today they build studios with almost complete isolation on each musician. They sit in little cages and listen on headphones. In my opinion, that's not so good for the creative process. We used to gather around the piano, run over the tunes a few times, and the musicians would get ideas for fills or for rhythm licks, and that was more fun. I know that still goes on, but it's not the same." Chet Atkins |
| "If you're photographing in colour you show the colour of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the colour of their soul." Author Unknown |
| "A film is a petrified fountain of thought." Jean Cocteau |
| "When you try to formalize or socialize creative activity, the only sure result is commercial constipation . . . . The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups." Charles Browder, president of BBDO, 1957. |
| "The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy." Louis Kronenberger |
| "A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask." Susan Sontag, US novelist and essayist, On Photography, 1977. |
