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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2013 6:33:42 GMT 10
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion
In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents
I would never see a good movie for the first time on televisionJean-Luc GodardFrench film director ( À bout de souffle “Breathless”) (Born this day 1930) The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2013 6:35:45 GMT 10
We're the Osbournes, and I love it
I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?
You don't need to hire a dog therapist, you just need to wake up at 7 am and open the [expletive] door
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
I've had every known chemical — cocaine, booze — and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!
When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before'
People say it's hard at the top, but it's even harder at the bottomJohn Michael “Ozzy” OsbourneEnglish musician ( Black Sabbath) (Born this day 1948) International rock star — gravy maker extraordinaire
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2013 6:36:52 GMT 10
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars
It is brave to be involved to be not fearful to be unresolved
To be in love is to touch with a lighter hand
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night
And all the little people will stare at me and say, "That is the Crazy Woman who would not sing in May"Gwendolyn BrooksAmerican Pulitzer Prize winning poet ( Annie Allen) (Died this day 2000) Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2013 6:22:49 GMT 10
Wednesday’s Quotes:In the state of nature profit is the measure of right
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man
Thomas Hobbes English Enlightenment philosopher ( Leviathan, “Social Contract”) (Died this day 1679) A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2013 6:23:51 GMT 10
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite
I don't pretend to understand the Universe — it's a great deal bigger than I am
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great menThomas CarlyleScottish essayist/historian (French Revolution) (Born this day 1795) Work alone is noble
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2013 6:24:54 GMT 10
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimesSamuel ButlerEnglish satirical novelist ( Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh) (Born this day 1835) It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2013 6:26:22 GMT 10
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the move- ments of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp
Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further
Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything
Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lieRainer Maria RilkeBohemian-Austrian poet and novelist ( The Panther) (Born this day 1875) The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2013 6:29:03 GMT 10
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the countryHannah ArendtGerman-US sociologist and political theorist (Died this day 1975) The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2013 6:31:05 GMT 10
Welcome to the family. We're a little weird here, but we're all very nice — so you'll fit in here. We're kind of intense — but you'll figure it out
I didn't enter into this to get any kind of affirmation or confirmation. I entered into this to see what I could do for other people — to give them my sincerity, to give them my love and my care, to take a load off, to have a smile, to have a memory or two
"Look without, and you will be fulfilled within — without a doubt." I really mean that — look without, without of yourself — not within
Life is filled with too many problems to not laugh every day ... We need to have a sense of humor going into this because it's too tough without it
Now I don't know where you come from if you think that you deserve a trophy, or a parade or are even guaranteed a thank-you for doing what's good and what's right to others, and being kind to them and respectful — but in life, you probably will not get these things. But that's not why we ought to do good — we ought to do good, not be- cause it's special or extra, but because it's the minimum of what we owe to one another
Let there be peace — At least so blood will not flow forever. Stop segregating yourselves and see that we should come together
So many wonderful things are happening all around me — and they don't need to happen to me. But to be given the grace to be a part of it, or to see it — especially to help — is the best thing I could ever haveYsabella Brave (born MaryAnne Ysabella)American vocalist (Born this day 1979) Control yourself and no one else and you will see the Truth my brother
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2013 6:32:02 GMT 10
It's better to have something to remember than nothing to regret
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the Universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the Universe
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of OUR NATIONAL STUPIDITY
Some people crave baseball — I find this unfathomable — but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mundane educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and “educate yourself” if you've got any guts. Some of you like “pep rallies” and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. “This song has no message.” Rise for the flag salute
You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot dealFrank ZappaAmerican musician, songwriter, composer and film director (Died this day 1993) Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, Beauty is not love, Love is not music and Music is THE BEST
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