Tarkovsky, Andrei -- Sculpting in Time (1986) [tr. Hunter-Blair]
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual, for the ideal: that longing which draws people to art. Modern art has taken the wrong turn in...
View ArticleTarkovsky, Andrei -- Sculpting in Time (1986) [tr. Hunter-Blair]
Never try to convey your idea to the audience — it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it. Andrei Tarkovsky...
View ArticleMcLaughlin, Mignon -- The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 5 (1963)
The three horrors of modern life — talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and authorThe Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 5 (1963)
View ArticleGladwell, Malcolm -- Outliers: The Story of Success, Part 1, ch. 5, sec. 10...
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963)...
View ArticleEberhardt, Isabelle -- The Passionate Nomad: The Diary of Isabelle Eberhardt...
Oh, if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such...
View ArticleFry, Stephen -- Moab is My Washpot, “Falling In,” ch. 6 (1997)
Come to think of it, I don’t know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has a point, in terms of relief and, sometimes, procreation, but love, like all art, as Oscar said, is...
View ArticleSpeech, National Archives (1952-12-15)
The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence can live only as long as they are enshrined in our hearts and minds. If they are not so enshrined, they would be no better than mummies in their...
View ArticleUnspinning the Spin: The Women’s Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate...
And yet if there’s one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead. This is sometimes attributed to...
View ArticleThe Novel of the Future, ch. 2 “Abstraction” (1968)
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
View ArticleLessing, Gotthold -- Nathan the Wise [Nathan der Weise], Act 2, sc. 1...
You know not, will not know, what Christians are; Their pride is to be Christians, never men; Ay, even that which since their Founder’s time Hath tinged their superstition with a touch Of pure...
View ArticleOliver, Mary -- “Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?” West...
Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? Mary Oliver (1935-2019) American poet“Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?” West Wind (1997)
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Mistinguett -- In Theatre Arts (1955-12)
The kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Mistinguett (1873-1956) French actress singer, dancer [b. Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois]In Theatre Arts (1955-12)
View ArticleWarren, Robert Penn -- Brother to Dragons, Foreword (1953)
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake. Robert Penn...
View ArticleFrankl, Viktor -- Man’s Search for Meaning [Trotzdem Ja zum Leben Sagen],...
But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and...
View ArticleMillay, Edna St. Vincent -- “Spring,” ll. 13-15, Second April (1921)
Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet“Spring,” ll. 13-15, Second April (1921)
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