It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. – Northrop Frye
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. – Northrop Frye
What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. – Jean Dubuffet
Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggys experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I dont take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual – scene to scene. – Elizabeth Moss