Art Quote by Leslie Cockburn Download Open image ““Yes, I know, I’m only an artist. What would I know about the dark side of Baghdad?”” — Leslie Cockburn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Dark Dark side
“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at one and… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them with a loving caress in… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“This must be Aleppo. Nothing to see, of course. Just a long, poor-lighted platform with loud furious altercations in Arabic going on somewhere. Two… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Art is painful, Layla. It’s potentially dangerous. Explosive. It takes everything from you, sometimes more than you can afford. It’s a beast, and it’s… — Saffron A. Kent Copy Share Image
“All around were horror, and thick gloom, and a black sweltering desert of ebony.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“The dead do not see, unless they look from a brighter place than this darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.” — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Are you a journalist?” “I’m a doctor.” “Good. We need doctors, Wallahi .” Sadoon scowled. “Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of people missing in Iraq. Just the other day I heard of somebody asking $250,000 ransom for an Egyptian. Can… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“Death was sweetened for the martyrs by the promise of 72 virgins waiting in paradise. She had researched the 72 virgins. The number wasn’t… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins.” “Insha’Allah.” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
