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“Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.”
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“When you're an artist, you pick up on certain things that are in the air.”
David Lynch
(1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
As quoted in "Lost Highway" interview by Mikal Gilmore in Rolling Stone magazine (6 March 1997) http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhrs1.html
Context: When you're an artist, you pick up on certain things that are in the air. You just feel it. It's not like you're sitting down, thinking, "What can I do to really mess things up?" You're getting ideas, and then the ideas feed into a story, and the story takes shape. And if you're honest about it and you're thinking about characters and what they do, you now see that your ideas are about trouble. You're feeling more depth, and you're describing something that is going on in some way.
Peter Farb
(1929–1980) American academic and writer
Word Play (1974)
Context: Whorf asked... Do the Hopi and European cultures... conceptualize reality in different ways? And his answer was that they do. Whereas European cultures are organized in terms of space and time, the Hopi culture, Whorf believed, emphasizes events. To speakers of European languages, time is a commodity that occurs between fixed points and can be measured. Time is said to be wasted or saved... their economic systems emphasize wages paid for the amount of time worked, rent for the time a dwelling is occupied, interest for the time money is loaned. Hopi culture... instead thinks... The span of time the growing takes is not the important thing, but rather the way in which the event of growth follows the event of planting. The Hopi is concerned that the sequence of events in the construction of a building be in the correct order, not that it takes a certain amount of time to complete the job.
“From the beginning of the world it has been ordained that certain signs must needs precede certain events.”
Sed ita a principio incohatum esse mundum, ut certis rebus certa signa praecurrerent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book I, Chapter LII, section 118
Compare: "Often do the spirits / Of great events stride on before the events, / And in to-day already walks to-morrow", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Death of Wallenstein, Act v, scene 1
De Divinatione – On Divination (44 BC)
“Death is the most certain and the most uncertain event there is.”
Peter Wessel Zapffe
(1899–1990) Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author
Source: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)
Edgar Degas
(1834–1917) French artist
"Recollections of Degas by Berthe Morisot" (p. 84)
posthumous quotes, Degas Dance Drawing' (1935)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)
Jack White
(1975) American musician and record producer
Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1349947,00.html ObserverGuarduan.co.uk (accessed June 6, 2006)
On why 2004 was, up to that point, the best year of his life
2004