Category: quotes

“Science works with chunks and bits and pieces of things with the continuity presumed, and [the artist] works only with the continuities of things with the chunks and bits and pieces presumed.”

— Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.”

— W. Ann Reynolds

“a film costs at least $100,000 per minute, and after 180 minutes, the human eyeball is in danger of melting” – David Mitchell

“It’s an unexpectedly expansive view for New York. New Yorkers don’t sentimentalize, though. They simply note the sight with appropriately jaded detachment.”

— Sodium Dreams

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

— Aristotle

“Today it takes the average citizen of Tanzania almost a year to produce the same volume of carbon emissions as is effortlessly generated every two and a half days by a European, or every twenty-eight hours by an American.”

— Bill Bryson (from At Home)

“Debussy understood that a work of art, or an effort to create beauty, was always regarded by some people as a personal attack.”

— Art of Noise

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

— Mark Twain

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”

— Mark Twain, Vince Lombardi, Vidal Sassoon, Donald Kendall (et al.)

“ […] this was a confrontation between two different legacies from the brothers Lumière: beteween film as art and film as agent of stupidity. […] ”

— Milan Kundera, Encounter