I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
Certain kinds of speed flow intensity density of attacks density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is I think easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude a common language.
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women certain attitudes toward sex certain attitudes toward race etc.
The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.
I have a political attitude but I'm certainly not a politician.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care you just do it and it looks great.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body the soul is on its knees.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that is our attitude.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources like artists because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Architecture is involved with the world but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work like any art.
I mean certainly writing painting photography dance architecture there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine if you want - but also some sort of sadness and plain mischief of course.
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
At the time 1980 people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear resentment and anger.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.