And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Just think for a moment if science really could move in the field of authenticity of works of art. There would be a cultural revolution to say the least, but also, I would say, a market revolution, let me add.
That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
...I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.
I don’t think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, that every breath was charmed and crisp.
It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah
He relented to the kiss and gave of himself what she required, his lips parting in symmetry with hers until the moment of realization collapsed.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.
I've learned that the only things we are in control of are the choices we make at any one given moment.
The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.
His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.
It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
The sun is not shining forever there are dark moment too . Your commitment , communication and consideration can bring back the light in the stormy days too.
