Any great art work … revives and readopts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

— Leonard Bernstein

Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.

— M.F. Moonzajer

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

— Theodor W. Adorno

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women

— August Strindberg

Back then, I was still just a fan of music. And to be a fan of music also meant to be a fan of cities, of places. Regionalism—and the creative scenes therein—played an important role in the identification and contextualization of a sound or aesthetic. Music felt married to place, and the notion of “somewhere” predated the Internet’s seeming invention of “everywhere” (which often ends up feeling like “nowhere”)

— Carrie Brownstein

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

— Sophia Loren

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

— Oscar Wilde

By engaging with film illusions both actively and passively – as I attempt to do in this book – we strengthen the capacity of our minds to reason, imagine and think through ideas in a way unrestrained by some static conception of objective Truth. In so doing, the nihilistic gap existing between the real world and the whole variety of film worlds perhaps widens, but it also serves to offer a free, open space into which our interpretations may spill, mingle and propagate in uninhibited, nihilistic liberty.

— John Marmysz