Pastoral Resources

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.