Books Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it…

— Rufus Wainwright

The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

— Robert K. Merton

I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted…

— Patrick Modiano

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I come from a classical background.

— David Draiman

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and…

— Greg Lynn

Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't…

— Charles Bukowski

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an…

— Joan Mitchell

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural…

— Richard Serra

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

— Armand Assante

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

— Armand Assante

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

— Northrop Frye