And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.
Interpretation
This quote evokes a sense of beauty found in silence and the imagination's power to conjure sounds.
Tom Stoppard's quote illustrates the profound impact of imagination and art on our perception of reality. In the absence of actual sound, the speaker reflects on how the mind can still hear music, suggesting that creativity allows us to experience beauty even in stillness. It highlights the notion that art can extend beyond the physical world, triggering emotions and sensations that are deeply felt yet invisible.
In practice
This quote could be used in a presentation about the importance of creativity in art.
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.
I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.
Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.
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