Elia Kazan

Boredom, cruelty, banality are the only sins.

W. H. Auden, A Certain World

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

Ingmar Bergman

Imagine I throw a spear into the dark. That is my intuition. Then I have to send an expedition into the jungle to find the spear. That is my intellect.

Seneca

Each day acquire something which will help you to face poverty, or death, and other ills as well.

Miles Davis

When you hit a wrong note it's the next note that makes it good or bad.

Pythagoras

Limit gives form to the limitless.

Eduoard Manet

Conciseness in art is a necessity and a grace.

Igor Stravinsky

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

T. H. Huxley, The Book of Beasts

Ancient traditions, when tested by the severe processes of modern investigation commonly enough fade away into mere dreams; but it is singular how often the dream turns out to have been a half-waking one, presaging reality.

This quotation was copied from the Museum of Jurassic Technology, attributed to T. H. Huxley's The Book of Beasts. There is no such book. T. H. White wrote a book by that name. Aldous Huxley wrote "Brave New World", among others. I have decided to attribute following Mr. Wilson in any case.