Distortion Quotes
Distortion Quote of the day
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.
If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.
It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.
I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.
It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.
It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.
If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.
The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as a means of attracting funds.
The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.
The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.