Elements Quotes - Page 21

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.

All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of their femininity and have to blend it in with masculinity... it's a kind of protection. Somebody like Madonna is strong but soft. You have to be that way in this business.

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place where you can play with the ideas of one's sanity, what's real and what's not.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.

The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.