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"Movies can be instruments of enlightenment."
"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
"Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late."
"When whisperedwhat an exquisitesong, it makes-your name."
"A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved."
"It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on."
Explore more quotes by Jean Rostand
"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said."
"A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."
"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."
"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."
"There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost."
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