Ivor Cutler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.
-- Ivor Cutler

#Acceptance #Perfection #Ends
I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes Im home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way.
-- Ivor Cutler

#Kindness #Lying #Fall
The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.' The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'
-- Ivor Cutler

#Wish #Alive #Stills
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.
-- Ivor Cutler

#Scotch #Scotland #Verbs
I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked around in panic. I prayed to God and relaxed. I realised if I turned carefully on my front I could see bits of grass to hold on to.
-- Ivor Cutler

#Scotland #Mountain #Sides

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.
Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple thÃ©orie, elle est une vie supÃ©rieure, dont la moralitÃ© fait partie intÃ©grante - une vie vouÃ©e au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.
We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

Ivor Cutler famous quotes

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