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

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• 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

• I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Art
  • Really
  • Get

• 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

• My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Dream
  • Week
  • Island

• 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

• To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Life
  • Art
  • Society

• I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Men

• I just love the world of photography.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • World
  • Photography

• Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • People
  • Live
  • Remember

• 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