There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
Conrad HallRead
I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of seeing one's vision materialize before truly knowing its success.
Conrad Hall articulates the idea that while an individual may have a clear vision or plan for a creative work, the true test of its effectiveness only occurs when it is presented in its final form. The moment the projected images illuminate the screen allows the creator to assess and confirm whether their initial intentions have been successfully realized, emphasizing the relationship between vision and tangible outcomes in artistic endeavors.
Themes
VisionArtCreativitySuccessProjection
In practice
Example use cases
A filmmaker discussing the importance of final edits before a premiere.
More from Conrad Hall
All quotes βSimilar quotes
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Nora EphronRead
A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.
Robert MotherwellRead
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
Eudora WeltyRead
As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.
Robert FulghumRead
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
Daniel LibeskindRead
Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.
Marina AbramovicRead