Quotes on Prisms

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.