#ife

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#art #arts #aural #cinema #elastic

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#chaos #comes #failure #generally #going

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ↗

— William Morris

#daily #daily life #details #genuine #happiness

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#becomes #enough #even #life #need

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. ↗

— Van Morrison

#highs #life #lows #part #situation

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#language #life #lives #may #meaning

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#appeals #bed #death #i #i think

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#ladders #life #snakes #tricky

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#any #been #ever #everything #i