#form

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#disappears #every #every time #everything #finish

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#air #body #circus #guy #head

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#color #counterpoint #creating #differentiate #formal

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain. ↗

— Roy Horn

#imitation #pain #sincerest #sincerest form

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#distraction #form #materialism #only #true

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#am #assistants #ever #far #his

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#extent #however #injures #open #performer

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#eating #entirely #fake #performance

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#been #book #could #easily #first

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#generous #greatest #minds #natural #reform