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I get offered so many bad movies. And they’re all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.
David Bowie1947–20161983 Comment, quoted in Halliwell’s Who’s Who in the Movies 15th Edition (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 60
- Comedy
- Movies
In that film Love Story, there’s a line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you’re sorry every day for some little thing or other.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012The Paris Review interview (2010)
- Love
- Movies
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949), ¶ 73
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956Essays on the Art of Theater (1954).
God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.
Robert Browning1812–1889Paracelsus (1835), Part 2.
- God
- Poetry
It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth,⁠—to mouths like mine, at least.
Robert Browning1812–1889The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
- Truth & Lies
What’s come to perfection perishes.
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Old Pictures in Florence, xvii.
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
Robert Browning1812–1889Andrea del Sarto (1855), Men and Women (1855), “Andrea del Sarto”In context
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning1812–1889Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845)In context
- Music
- Nature
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive;
Robert Browning1812–1889My Last Duchess (1842)In context
We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.
Jerry Bruckheimerborn 1943
- Movies
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski1920–1994Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
- Intelligence
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873
- Beauty
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
Anthony Burgess1917–1993A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. Burroughs1914–1997The Western Lands (1987), ch. 2
- Writing