When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Interpretation
Creatives often struggle to translate their inner ideas into tangible forms.
This quote highlights the profound struggle that artists and creators face: the disconnect between their original vision and the final product they deliver. The 'chasm' signifies the gap where the purity of imagination meets the limitations of execution, a common experience that often leads to frustration yet also drives improvement and growth in the creative process.
In practice
This quote can be used during a creative workshop to emphasize the importance of embracing imperfections in the artistic process.
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor.
Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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