Quotes About Distillation

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what art does in general, is get rid of all the noise. It hones in and isolates the qualities of a scene.

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

I have a natural flow in the diary: what I produce outside is a distillation, the myth, the poem. The elaboration is here. It is the gem made out of this natural outpouring. Shouldn't people prefer the gems?

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.

We also have to reevaluate the historic benefits of intoxication, at both the individual and group level, in light of the unprecedented threats that intoxicants pose in the modern world. The relatively recent innovations of distillation and social isolation entirely change intoxicants' balance on the razor's edge between order and chaos, creating novel dangers that we only dimly appreciate.

Airy elaboration just loses everyone in a fog of words.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation.

Do not waste the balance of life left to you in thoughts about other persons...for why do you rob yourself of something else which you might do?

It is a literary truism that there must be a period of distillation before the real impact of some tremendous event, either historical or personal, can emerge in writing.

Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Talk about anything long enough, and you cut it down to size.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

Amplification through simplification.

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

How did the distillers decide which part of their production was vodka and which was rubbing alcohol? Or did it matter? While

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.