"The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact."

-- Herbert Read

#Artist Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one.”
“Being a black filmmaker, one of the things I wanted to do with the movie is make sure I told it from a different perspective. I wanted to take myself out of it as a black male. I wanted to look at this movie through the eyes of Tully, to understand what he was thinking, and feel what he was feeling as much as I could.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.”

Source : Lu Xun (2014). “Call to Arms”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.”
“It's so ironic. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.”
“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”

Source : Mary Renault (2013). “The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.71, Hachette UK
“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”
“It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say”

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