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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

I want to do something that nobody has done before me. And I want to do it in such a way that nobody will forget me for it.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey Bogart? Do you want him to look like a blah blah blah. I didn't know, and said the theme is 'privacy' and chose the plastic coat you could see through. So knowing the theme helps you make a decision when you're not sure which way to go.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on

I'm not scared of any opponent. I fight who I want to fight.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.

Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.