Andrea Palladio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.

  • What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

  • One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.

  • I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

  • You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

  • Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

  • Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

  • If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

  • A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

  • Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.