Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more tha >>

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, i >>

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An i >>

Quotations about Cinema

Curiosity doesn't matter any more. These days people don't want to be >>

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience >>

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the >>

A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

Woolf, Virginia