When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing.
— Mark Rothko
Taxi Driver; dir. by Martin Scorsese, 1976
You must remember,
if it's in your heart, then it's real.
Watch me go ballistic, suckers.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
— Ezra Pound
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It's the soul, that's erotic.
back in bed.
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
— Charles Bukowski
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Do you really believe in these fairy tales? Not in the good ones, but in the terrifying ones, yes.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nаzi or the convinced Cоmmunist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
— Hannah Arendt
The freer the soul, more abstract the art.
— Marc Chagall
Ph. by Shinichi Kinugawa
To play it safe is not to play.
— Robert Altman
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Überschreitungen der Pathosgrenze.
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Manche Seelen treffen sich immer wieder.
Resonanzen in Zeit und Raum.
Why do I feel this alone? Basically, because I've always been alone. I've always been alone. And alone I'll be. It's about time I become aware of it and never forget it.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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I met myself in you.
Es ist, wie ich sagte. Diese Tage sind vorbei.
Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
— Leonard Cohen
She was to be a shooting star; she flickered briefly in the void, she continued the inevitable trajectory of the meteor, downward.
— Angela Carter