"Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it."

-- Rachel Kushner

#Art Quotes #Soul Quotes #World Quotes

“I like the idea of having a film that is choreographic in all its aspects, not only in the dancing scenes, but also in the way the camera and the characters move in order to have that feeling that it's always musical.”
“Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.”
“The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If you are truly involved in a film and if you are going to do any kind of good work, you have to have that full commitment to the work. If you aren't willing to do that, or if that is not in your nature, I say steer clear of it.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.”
“In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.”
“I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.”

Source : "Blackpool's Charlie Adam goes with the flow but keen to make a splash". Interview with Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.
“The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.”

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