The method of painting is the natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique i...s just a means of arriving at a statement.... I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudd...en flash of poetry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence.... The boil is grow...ing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human visual perception is a far more complex and selective process than that by which a film records. Nevertheless the camera len...s and the eye both register images--because of their sensitivity to light--at great speed and in the face of an immediate event. What the camera does, however, and what the eye in itself can never do is to fix the appearance of that event. It removes its appearance from the flow of appearances and it preserves it, not perhaps forever but for as long as the film exists. The essential character of this preservation is not dependent upon the image being static; unedited film rushes preserve in essentially the same way. The camera saves a set of appearances from the otherwise inevitable supercession of further appearances. It holds them unchanging. And before the invention of the camera nothing could do this, except, in the mind's eye, the faculty of memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,... And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a ...matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The darkened theatre; a soft, comfortable seat; controlled temperature and humidity; and thousands of shadowy images moving across... the screen--these strongly suggest the dream world each of us occupies while sleeping. It is possible to think of cinema as the deliberate manufacture of dreams. Psychological experiments reveal that individuals deprived of dreams--allowed to sleep but awakened when they begin to dream--move into a psychotic state. Clearly, dreaming is a biological and cultural necessity. In some way, our human psychobiological equipment is purged and regenerated while we sleep. Sanity is maintained, it seems, by the curious, illogical flow of images we call dreams. But why do we require dreams during the waking state?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled,... Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead:--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experien...ces and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »