"It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae."

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Source : "Ales Kot's highly ambitious Zero explores the deep roots of violence" by Shea Hennum and Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2015.

William S. Burroughs

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes

“All wars are waged against children”
“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.”
“Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.”
“If there is no direct threat why are we invading?”
“Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.”

Source : "The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World". Book by John Orr and Elżbieta Ostrowska, 2006.
“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”
“I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.”
“I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Talks Strictly Ballroom". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 03, 2010.

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