"We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Art Quotes #Order Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.”
“No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one,”
“There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.”

Source : "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.
“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes.”

Source : Source: www.all-creatures.org
“The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.”
“Whoever acts with respect will get respect.”
“Beware the man of a single book.”
“There is only one me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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