are you dreaming, Frederick?

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."
--Dumbledore, HP and the SS by J.K. Rowling

"What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrel is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows."
--Dumbledore, HP and the SS by J.K. Rowling

"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
--Dumbledore, HP and the SS by J.K. Rowling

"You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all--the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."
--Dumbledore, HP and the SS by J.K. Rowling

"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."
--Dumbledore, HP and the SS by J.K. Rowling

"The truth.[...]It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
--Dumbledore, HP and the SS by J.K. Rowling

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
--Pablo Picasso

"All art is experimental, or it isn't art."
--Gene Youngblood

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
--C.S. Lewis

"The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."
--Mark Twain

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
--Bill Watterson

"I have seen the life on this planet, and that is exactly why I am looking elsewhere."
--Mulder, The X-Files

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be adding mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
--Joseph Addison

"All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Art is telling the truth, and then maybe even a secret."
--unknown

"The image is not a certain meaning,
expressed by the director,
but the entire world
reflected as in a drop of water."
--Andrei Tarkovsky

"I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances, and concentrates a person's experience--and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: 'stars,' story-lines, and entertainment have nothing to do with it."
--Andrei Tarkovsky

"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real."
--Lucian Freud

"Art is an activity you do while having some other career."
--Vito Acconci

"The first step--especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money--the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."
--Chuck Palahniuk

"Creativity is to introduce order into the randomness of nature."
--Eric Hoffer

"I think my think, and then I make my think."
--a small child

"If an idea is any good, it's on the verge of being stupid."
--Michel Gondry

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
--Aldous Huxley

"The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble."
--Ellen Degeneres

"Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
--Robertson Davies