Temple of Literature

Famous quotes containing the words temple of, temple and/or literature:

    The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
    Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

    After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
    Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)