20th century Quote by Chuck Klosterman

“That's about when people realized that this wasn't some kind of show, an optical illusion or something to stand around and point at. They…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“The group of artists and scientists that had so far done least was the one that had attracted the greatest interest—and the greatest alarm.…

— Arthur C. Clarke

From the time I could visually perceive film or TV, I was just enthralled by it. I thought it was the most wonderful thing…

— Jonathan Banks

You try and imagine what it must have been like to first see something moving on a screen. It must have blown your mind,…

— Jarvis Cocker

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All…

— John Sexton

We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that…

— Masha Tupitsyn

It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be…

— Dwight Schultz

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are…

— John Dewey

It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to…

— Sofia Coppola

“The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of…

— Peter Redgrove

I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination…

— Tracy K. Smith

Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

— Melissa de la Cruz