"The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity."

-- Guy de Maupassant

#Art Quotes #History Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (2007). “Collected Poems”, Carcanet Press
“Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.”
“Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.”
“My own children are John Cena fans- which really pisses me off by the way.”
“Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.”
“The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished.”
“The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.”
“About my work, my first film, Ã‰coute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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