Virginia Woolf Quotes

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

Virginia Woolf

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• Imagination
• Difficult
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• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Control
  • Difficult
  • Run

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Education

• I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • School
  • Art
  • College

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Table

• I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Mood

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Long
  • You
  • Difficult

• In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Life
  • Art
  • Act

• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Art
  • Desire

• To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Art
  • May
  • Practice

• Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • Time
  • Work
  • Ego

• We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • School

• With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Political
  • Respect

• Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

  

  John Harvey Kellogg
  • People

• To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Art
  • Imagination
  • Difficult