The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the ba...se or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"It's good luck when you move in to begin With good luck with your stovepipe. Never mind,... It's not so bad in the country, settled down, When people're getting on in life. You'll like it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Popular cinema cooperates with desire for reverie rather than opposing it. This is why mass-audience movies are so conscious of ge...nre formulas. A formula--the formula for romance, for example, or thrillers or westerns--is something predictable. If it is made sufficiently obvious through advance advertising and the use of identifying motifs in the introductory scenes of the movie itself, the audience can settle immediately into its reverie, secure in the knowledge that there will be no surprises. Nothing will happen that will require conscious mental effort. The art film, it should be admitted, attempts to move in just the opposite direction--to awaken and shock and engage the audience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suppose these houses are composed of ourselves, So that they become an impalpable town, full of... Impalpable bells, transparencies of sound, Sounding in the transparent dwellings of the self, Impalpable habitations that seem to move In the movement of the colors of the mind....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for ...a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly M to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own c...reating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The historian must have ... some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dea...d. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determi...ne their whole curve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; s...eparate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »