"You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

#People Quotes #Soul Quotes #Brain Quotes

“A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.”

Source : "The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France". Book by Alison MacQueen, 2003.
“I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.”

Source : Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA
“I have a lot of nightmares.”
“When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world. The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand. It's a natural extension of the storytelling and the process of filmmaking.”
“It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs”
“You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.”

Source : John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.13, Oberon Books
“Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.”

Source : Sandra Postel (1985). “Conserving water: the untapped alternative”, Worldwatch Inst
“I donâ€™t like San Francisco. I love it!”

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