"Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form."

-- Robert Bresson

#Art Quotes #Form Quotes

“Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.”
“The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.”
“American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.”
“The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.”
“Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.”
“My relationship with religion is very strong because it was my hope, and it gave me two things very important in my life. It gave me the belief and it gave me a point to reach: Don't do something bad to the people next to you.”

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“For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.”
“I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world”

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