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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Poetry
I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see ‘hits,’ and discourage exploration.
Roger Ebert1942–2013In: Jonathan Silverman, ‎Dean Rader (2005), The world is a text, p. 315
- Movies
I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams1952–2001
Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
- Movies
The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.
Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876“The Reaction in Germany” (1842)
- War & Peace
Film lovers are sick people.
François Truffaut1932–1984
- Movies
The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.
MVMichael Votto
- Movies
- Reading
On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to Conservative Election Rally in Plymouth (22 May, 2001)
- Movies
We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.
Jerry Bruckheimerborn 1943
- Movies
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)
I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will⁠—the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.
Roger Ebert1942–2013Review of Gerry (28 February 2003)
- Movies
What is art but a way of seeing?
TBThomas Bergerborn 1959Often credited to Saul Bellow
‘It will obliterate your senses!’ reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
- Movies
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
- Poetry