Aphorisms
Beauty
"We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting."
-Kahlil Gibran
Design
"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."
-Eliel Saarinen, "Time," July 2, 1956. Quoted by his son Eero, Time 2 June 1977.
Filmmaking
"Effects these days are in the hands of everyman. You can go shoot a movie of broadcast quality on your own. But it doesn't necessarily mean we're seeing better movies. Shakespeare didn't have a word-processor. When we got word-processors, we didn't get Shakespeare. We gotta separate the two out. There's creativity and there's technology, and the two are inter-related. But technology is not necessarily creative."
- Harrison Ellenshaw
TRON - Visual Effects Supervisor, Associate Producer
Goals
''"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Internet
""Blogging: Never before so many people wrote so much to say so little to so many other people when so few of them actually care that much."
- ThE_JacO
- Raffaele Fragapane
Learning
"If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search."
- Sir John Templeton
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
- Henry Ford
Light
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
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"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
- Charles Dickens
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Painting
"Looseness is not how the painting was painted, but how it looks. Paint only as quickly as accuracy will allow."
- Richard Schmid, painter
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"My father, who mistrusted imagination, said: ‘If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model you risk becoming sterotyped, because your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves whereas Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself."
- Director Jean Renoir, referring to his father, the painter
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Photography
"One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style."
- Anonymous
"Photography is an immediate action, drawing is meditation."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, 24 July 1972
Theory and Practice
"Theory is when we know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. We have combined theory and practice: nothing works and no one knows why!"
-Alan Maley
"Classroom practice: an overview", in R. Bowers and C. Brumfit (eds.) Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching. MacMillan, London, 1991.
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