Quotes of: Reflect Keyword

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

Ben Wheatley

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

Christopher Knight

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Ernst Fischer

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

James Mark Baldwin

Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.

Lee Siegel

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

Stefon Harris

My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that…

Anne of Green Gables

Anna read and understood, but it was unpleasant to read, that is to say, to follow the reflection of other people's lives. She was too eager to live herself.

Anna Karenina

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

The Hours

I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.

Healing Old Wounds With New Stitches

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Indexing

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Just Kids

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

Known and Unknown: A Memoir

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

Reflections on the Psalms

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

The Sciences of the Artificial