“The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good." 

- Andrei Tarkovsky,

 

Pip Simmons, 1977

(via Ian Hodgson)

Bob:  "In the chocolate box of life, the top layer's already gone - and someone's pinched the orange cream from the bottom." 

Terry: "Bloody hell!"

- from The Likely Lads, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, 1976

Bob played by Rodney Bewes, Terry played by James Bolam

Personally I wouldn't be at all bothered if someone nicked the orange creams, so mentally I adapt this quote to refer to anything involving coconut, or nuts covered in chocolate

 

Elena Ferrante 

 "The distinction of art is that it is neither simply an expression of pain... nor an impression of pain, but is itself a force which creates pain."

-- Maya Deren

 “Youth instinctively understand the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.” 

- Marshall McLuhan 

 “Originality is unmusical. The urge to do music is an admiring emulation of music one loves; the urge toward originality happens under threat that the music that sounds good to you somehow isn’t good enough”

- Scott Miller

via this LARB piece by Ivan Kreilkamp on the music writing of the musician who led and fronted Game Theory and The Loud Family, as gathered in the out-of-print book Music: What Happened?

 

Joan Bakewell, the Thinkige Man's crumpet or so they said when they didn't realise that was offensive