"the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight ..."

-- A. R. Ammons

#Block Quotes #Sight Quotes #Hue Quotes

“In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.”

Source : "Songs and freedom in West Papua" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.
“That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.”
“Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself in my films.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.”
“Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.”
“More important than the food pairing is the person with whom you drink the wine.”
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
“I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own.”

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