Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. "

Related Quotes:

" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "

" For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. "

" Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. "

" Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. "

" Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. "

Science Fiction

" The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. "

" It is not the position, but the disposition. "

" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "

" It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. "

" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "

" Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. "

" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "

" What we need is to use what we have. "

" Sanity is a cozy lie. "

" Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. "

" I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. "

" The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. "

" To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. "

" Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. "

" Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. "

" AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. "

" Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. "

" To photograph is to confer importance. "

" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "

" So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. "

" What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

" It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. "

" Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. "

" The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. "