Aesthetic Quote by David Mamet

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The reduction of experience to 'a series of pure and unrelated presents' further implies that the 'experience of the present becomes powerfully, overwhelmingly vivid…

— David Harvey

“It is a mistake to believe that the decisive moments of a life when its direction changes for ever must be marked by sentimental…

— Pascal Mercier

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself…

— Clement Greenberg

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray

“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic…

— Claude Calame

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals…

— Paul Brunton

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of…

— Idries Shah

I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense…

— Jeff Koons

“The dramatic arises out of the margin of opaqueness between a writer and his personages, out of the potential for the unexpected. In the…

— George Steiner

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

— Allen Tate