Ernst Fischer Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Krawg's vulturebeak nose twitched in the middle of the few undisciplined whiskers that grew where a mustache did not.

Jeffrey Overstreet

#3. And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life - well, that was nobody's business, was it?

Rick Riordan

#4. If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Ernst Fischer

#5. Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#6. Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.

Ernst Otto Fischer

#7. When God gives you an idea, you must act immediately on it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother's maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.

Keith Coogan

#9. Adjusting to life's changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find clarity on all levels of encouragement in places and by people you least expect. Remember as it has been said before: This too shall pass!

Steven Cuoco

#10. The moment we're born, we start dying. We spend our lives dying.

Kelly Parsons

#11. What was I once, what have I now become...

Symeon

#12. To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Fischer

#13. The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

Ernst Fischer

#14. As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

Ernst Fischer