Elements Quotes - Page 20

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by the United States itself at the dawn of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that was later transformed into the World Trade Organisation.

Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do.

There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so... it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.

Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender