Famous quotes containing the words moves, lose and/or material:
“Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 19:2.
“Al: Ain’t you gonna look back, Ma? Give the old place a last look?
Ma Joad: We’re goin’ to California, ain’t we? Alright then, let’s go to California.
Al: That don’t sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.
Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. I never had to lose everything I had in life.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)
“This is the essential distinction—even opposition—between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, the film objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer—in actual practice it is rated very low—we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)