Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
if you can’t answer ‘why’, the ‘how’ is an edifice built on sand.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
cast thy nighted colour off,
The Wright Angles • Complete Works of William Shakespeare: 197 Plays, Poems & Sonnets
And so,
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
That's one of the marks of a great film artist, I think-the ability to compress, condense, to find resonance in the simplest of images, and to never waste an image, making it work on a number of levels.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
His greatest art will often be what he does not say, what he leaves out, his ability to state simply with clear emotion, the way he wants to go.
Ray Bradbury • Zen in the Art of Writing
Iris Murdoch’s words: “Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself and then comes to resemble the picture.”
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
Aristotle works from two premises. The first is that poetry is better if it has a structured plot.
Aristotle • Poetics (Penguin Classics S.)
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
amazon.com