Georges Rodenbach Quotes

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

Georges Rodenbach

• Art
• Dream
• Unattainable

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Art
  • Black
  • Automation

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Art
  • College
  • Training

• It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Work
  • Job
  • Experience

• I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painter

• To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Art
  • Small

• In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Movie
  • Today

• I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Good
  • Art
  • Political

• I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Business
  • Dream

• Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Time
  • Art
  • Ideas

• I'd like to be involved in 'SNL' somehow. I mean, being a permanent cast member is a stretch! That's pretty damned hard, but to host it one day would be a dream come true. And I would like to play the DC Comics villain Harley Quinn.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Life
  • School
  • Art

• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

  

  Ma Long
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dream

• At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

  

  William Kunstler
  • People
  • Dream
  • Hills

• COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.

  

  Etienne Wenger
  • Knowledge
  • Practice
  • Problems

• The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Story
  • Mood
  • Germ

• I know a lot of really good actors - tons, just tons - who I still don't know why they don't work all the time because they're that good. It's just a weird business, and I know a lot of actors who shouldn't be working, but they work all the time.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

  

  James P. Moran
  • Work
  • Different
  • Wife

• The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

  

  Georges Rodenbach
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Unattainable