Petrakova Vila Quotes

#1. Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

John Milton

#2. I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some beautiful things in that, particularly the relationship between the man who finds the briefcase and the woman whose husband owned the briefcase. It's quite a beautiful passage.

Paul Auster

#3. Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

Andre Kertesz

#4. You have made yourself an island of time, you are a time that has become detached from that vast Time in which your indefinite duration has the subsistence and eternity of a smoke-ring.

Paul Valery

#5. The more you know, the less you learn.

You

#6. At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed.

Maxine Greene

#7. My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Aldous Huxley