“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
As quoted in Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) by Azar Nafisi
“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.”
As quoted in Hitchcock (1967) by François Truffaut
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
From an April 13, 1942 letter to poet Joë Bousquet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%AB_Bousquet, published in their collected correspondence (Correspondance [Lausanne: Editions l'Age d'Homme, 1982], p. 18). <br class="br">Original: L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. https://books.google.com/books?id=BxpMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22L%E2%80%99attention+est+la+forme+la+plus+rare+et+la+plus+pure+de+la+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rosit%C3%A9%22&dq=%22L%E2%80%99attention+est+la+forme+la+plus+rare+et+la+plus+pure+de+la+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rosit%C3%A9%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD6K24mfvLAhUGax4KHW4HAjkQ6AEIPjAF
“The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains”
Siddharth Katragadda (1972) Indian writer
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Dark Rooms (2002)
“Filmmakers of Cinema Verité resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.”
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Minnesota declaration (1999)
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) Japanese film maker
On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79
Context: I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist
Source: The Invention of Wings
“I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
