Pialat Quotes & Sayings

Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from. — Ira Sachs

There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board. — A.S. Byatt

on expensive dressmakers who made her luxurious dresses. But she was too mean to wear them: she saved them up at the back of her closet, and most of the time she wore an old mouse-colored housecoat. — Amos Oz

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me. — A.P. Herbert

Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love. — Adam Lambert

Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it. — Radhanath Swami

I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map. — Rory Stewart

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it. — Anne Bronte

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage. — Laurie Halse Anderson