"In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response."

-- F. R. Leavis

#Appreciation Quotes #Art Quotes #Hands Quotes

“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”

Source : How Buildings Learn ch. 3 (1994)
“A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.”
“The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.”
“So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?”
“I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.”
“In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.”
“When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.”
“I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.”

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