In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
Interpretation
Art has the ability to transport us beyond the constraints of time.
This quote by Salman Rushdie suggests that engaging with art allows individuals to transcend their temporal reality, entering a state where the confines of time fade away. In moments of true artistic experience, whether through viewing a painting, listening to music, or reading literature, one can feel an eternity of emotional and intellectual exploration, becoming fully immersed in the artwork itself.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the transformative power of art at an art gallery opening.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
I've never let a rhinestone go unturned
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.
If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.
You have to have a sound that inspires you to play because, if not, you won't be able to make the sound you have work. You won't be able to make magic with it if you're not happy with it, so it's important that you at least please yourself to the level where you can just relax and be an artist.
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
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