Quotes About Theme

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

time she decorated the nursery in neutral

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.

Three themes surface repeatedly in the book. The first theme centers on the importance of taking actions within the context of an analytically rigorous framework, implemented with discipline and under-girded with thorough analysis of specific opportunities.

Sometimes I wear sunglasses even in the house. Sometimes at the stadium I hold my hand up and look at it and I swear I can see right through it. Like that thing with the flashlight and your hand.' 'Hands seem to be sort of a theme to this call, thus far.' 'On the way in from the lot off the street here I saw a pedestrian in a pith helmet stagger and like claw at the air and pitch forward onto his face. Another Phoenician felled by the heat I think to myself

Less art, more matter

I'll get back to the main theme of the book: man's search for god in a pointless, violent universe.

My maturing of a theme would already be a cantabile aria— so let somebody else make another song— the song of the maturing of my quartet. This is before the maturing. The melody would be the fact.

Aceptar como tema de discusión, una categoría que nos parece falsa nos expone siempre a un riesgo: el de mantener, en virtud de la atención que se le presta, alguna ilusión acerca de su realidad.

He varied his theme, embellished it with vocalizations , fell in love with his voice, became this distraught, intoxicated and panting singer, whom one listens to with the unbearable desire to see him sing.-Colette, Les Vrilles de la Vigne

Life is such a f-ckin roller coaster, then it drops, but what should I scream for? This is my theme park.

In any genre it may happen that the first great example contains the whole potentiality of the genre. It has been said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato. It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.

Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.