But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely Beauty.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination not invention is the supreme master of art as of life.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is can do or is worth on an existential alchemical level.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence to recreate it in the eternal.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art because to us it is false and visionary was to the makers of it true and existent.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.

I think in art but especially in films people are trying to confirm their own existences.

However democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf which hunts in a pack has a greater chance of survival than the lion which hunts alone.