"It is in its pure form that an art hits hard."

-- Robert Bresson

#Art Quotes #Form Quotes

“Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.”
“With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.”
“But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!”
“I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.”

Source : Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.
“That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.”
“Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.”
“So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.”

Source : "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.
“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”

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