My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the joy and value of creativity and simplicity in art.
In this quote, Cormac McCarthy expresses a profound appreciation for the act of creation, suggesting that a perfect day involves the tranquility and potential of simply having blank paper at one's disposal. He equates this serene creative space to 'heaven' and 'gold', indicating that true fulfillment comes from the ability to express oneself artistically rather than from external distractions or material pursuits.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of creativity in education.
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass.
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
This is a writerβs lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.
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