Art Quote by William Gibson Download Open image ““His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.”” — William Gibson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Business
“He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a… — Joan London Copy Share Image
“Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“... the perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.” — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“She smelled of flowers and rain. A meadow beneath a storm. It was intoxicating, and before he could even ponder why he would think… — Micah Persell Copy Share Image
“...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window --… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story’s essence had permeated every part of him, to the walls… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Before he got too far, he thought he smelled a fire. No sooner did he blink before he sensed something dire. He heard a… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
“His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Very slowly, he turned a full circle, taking in the nothingness of it all. It seemed his lungs could never be large enough to… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Something inside his chest unlocked--wildly, slowly, a peculiar sort of melting. He was lost. He was the thorn and the thistle, blown upon her… — Shana Abé Copy Share Image
“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“No," said Blackwell, "she won't, because that would be a violation of the very personal terms I will have established in our conversation. That's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Music was strange that way though; there were people into any damned thing, it seemed like, and if you got enough of them together… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“What happened to your arm?" she asked me one night in the Gentleman Loser, the three of us drinking at a small table in… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were… — William Gibson 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