Mask Quotes - Page 23

• 'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

  Ezra Pound

  Work, Night, Views

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.57, Delphi Classics

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• ... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world to which it refers in a manner parallel to fingerprints or footprints or the rings of water that cold glasses leave on tables. The photograph is thus generically distinct from painting or sculpture or drawing. On the family tree of images it is closer to palm prints, death masks, the Shroud of Turin, or the tracks of gulls on beaches.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Photography, Beach, Real

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• [Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we're part of an acting tradition and, and performance capture is no different.

  Andy Serkis

  Greek, Acting, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like its crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like its laughing. Nowadays, we would say, How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Two, Laughing, Tragedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.

  Vivien Leigh

  Morning, Stupid, Responsibility

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• Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

  Peter Ustinov

  Beautiful, Eyelashes, Vacuums

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• The one time of year when everyone wears a mask... not just me.

  Nick Carter

  "Dexter: Let's Give the Boy a Hand". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Long, Actors, Faces

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• What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
  As to descry the crafty cunning train,
  By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,
  And cast her colours dyed deep in grain,
  To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign,
  And fitting gestures to her purpose frame,
  The guiltless man with guile to entertain?

  Edmund Spenser

  Wise, Men, Deceit

  Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.125, Canon Press & Book Service

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• It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

  Erik Larson

  Taken, Dark, Roots

  "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, 2003.

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• Of all sports, football seems to be the most sanctioned homosocial opportunity for straight men to be with each other, pat butts, struggle, strive, and take showers together. All that talk of tight ends and penetration. The reason there are face masks on those helmets is so that can't kiss each other.

  Kate Clinton

  Sports, Football, Struggle

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.60, Bywater Books

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• Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

  Mary Renault

  Dull, Speech, Common

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Character, Self, Wish

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.195, New York Review of Books

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• The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check.

  Richard Stengel

  Government, Desire, Needs

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• When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

  John Cusack

  Taken, Principles, Kitsch

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• Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Boldness And Courage, Boldness

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• The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.

  Toby Jones

  Artist, Interesting, Actors

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness.

  Taylor Schilling

  Wrinkles, Order, Bravery

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• Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Self, Personality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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• I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Hair, Blood

  "American Psycho". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!... She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.

  Gaston Leroux

  Running, Tears, Together

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries”, p.195, e-artnow

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• I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

  George Gissing

  Hate, Heart, Men

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.253, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

  Jodi Picoult

  Expectations, What If, World

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Long, Lapses

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• No one can wear a mask for very long.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Wearing A Mask

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