Quotes by Ideas To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge. Anne Waldman dreammemoriesideas I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman. Anne Waldman favorite-wordspeopleideas Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It's complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation. Anne Waldman warideasthinking I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show. Anne Waldman lightsoundideas I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.' Anne Waldman twoideasthinking It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience. Anne Waldman richlanguageideas I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity. Anne Waldman artistideasthinking And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else. Anneli Rufus groupsbraveryideas I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous. Annie Baker projectsnextideas The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature. Annie Besant menchildrenideas Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us. Annie Dillard handsfactsideas Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized. Annie Dillard secretjoyideas I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks. Annie Leibovitz tryingpeopleideas People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs. Annie Leibovitz photographypeopleideas Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges. Annie Lennox essentialschallengesideas Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. Anselm Kiefer debrisruinsideas The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories. Anselm Kiefer storiesbookideas I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment. Anselm Kiefer paradisejudgmentideas I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy. Anthony Bourdain tomatoesvinesideas Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is. Anthony Bourdain strangerdrinkingideas«4546474849505152535455»
