Noh Theater Quotes & Sayings

The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it. — Vivienne Westwood

I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh. — Matthew Perry

Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the prospect of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities — William T. Vollmann

Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance. — Alecko Eskandarian

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. — Mark Twain

There is always a way to solve a problem,
and even though I can't see it sometimes,
I choose to believe that a solution always exists. — Jose N. Harris

If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it! — Fumio Obata

We want the world, and we want it now! — Jim Morrison

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. — Paddy Ashdown

But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all. — Hirokazu Koreeda

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction. — Diana Ossana

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity. In this manner of its origin lies its true estimate: there is no other. Therefore, my dear Sir, I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths whence your life wells forth; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. — Rainer Maria Rilke