Staparish Quotes & Sayings

Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No. — Aaron Copland

Well the days of community policing were over. The world was a bottleful of sparkling darkness and cops the ones charged with keeping the cork in while the rich shook and shook. — Sunil Yapa

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. — George Packer

Substitution ... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image. — Andrei Tarkovsky

War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in. — Alan Moore

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better. — C.S. Lewis

I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen. — Pipilotti Rist