What did Christopher Isherwood mean by: If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. - Christopher Isherwood Novelist · United Kingdom Copy
+ Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Isherwood, Intelligent, 0 - Christopher Isherwood Novelist · United Kingdom
+ I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Isherwood, Cameras, Fixed, Someday, 0 - Christopher Isherwood Novelist · United Kingdom
+ I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Isherwood, Belief, Doubt, 0 - Christopher Isherwood Novelist · United Kingdom
+ We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Isherwood, Philosophical, Philosophy, 0 - Christopher Isherwood Novelist · United Kingdom
+ The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor’s imagination. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Isherwood, Imagination, Towns, Visitors, 0 - Christopher Isherwood Novelist · United Kingdom
+ What it sees there isn’t so much a face as the expression of a predicament. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Isherwood, Expression, Faces, 0 - Christopher Isherwood Novelist · United Kingdom
+ You see, Kenny, there are some things you don’t even know you know, until you’re asked. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Isherwood, 0 - Christopher Isherwood Novelist · United Kingdom
+ One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Isherwood, Writing, 0 - Christopher Isherwood Novelist · United Kingdom
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France