contextual influence Quotes

To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe that's just speculation.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

… words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize

One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

It's true that your environment influences how you write.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

Strategy draws its inspiration each century, or rather at each moment of history, from the problems which events themselves pose.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

The political biographies most popular in the modern era often tell us less about their subjects than about the moment in which the books themselves are published.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.