Vittorini Painting Quotes

#1. Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Jack Kerouac

#2. What do you want, Nick?" "Right now? Nothing, but you.

Riley Hart

#3. [His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#4. Black and white is much closer to the condition of
dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was
part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

John Boorman

#5. The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.

James Laughlin

#6. In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#7. I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time.

Nicole Krauss

#8. In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

Phil Harris