I have a desire to create more film more beauty more art more love but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

There will always be a desire for something new fresh and innovative as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom the poetic passion the desire of beauty the love of art for its own sake has most.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation a desire for art to be more than showy effects big numbers and gamesmanship.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

The preparation commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.