It could be a thousand things, distractions, worries; but very often I think what keeps a writer from finding the words is that she grasps at them too soon, hurries, grabs. She doesn’t wait for the wave to come in and break. She wants to write beca...
Is there anywhere else to sleep tonight... Anywhere?' I pleaded. There's Mei's office, but you'll have to sleep on the floor I'm afraid.' Mei was one of the Ward 9D dietitians. 'I'll sleep on the floor any day. I'm used to it back in the Islands,' I ...
…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something believed in with conviction or seen with precision and thus compelling words to a shape…. You have not finished with it because you...
So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also ...
[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.
Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty—stupid me for going along with it.
A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.
Men did stupid things when they got romantic ideas in their heads.
