He was doing stuff that was surreal.

 

He was doing stuff that was surreal.
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Richard Dreyfus, as quoted in "The Lyric Poet Of The Silent Screen : A Profile of Buster Keaton" by Chris Wood at FIlmMonthly.com (16 July 2001)

 

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The significance of a work of art is determined then by the quality of its growth. This involves intangible forces inherent in the process of development. Although these forces are surreal (that is, their nature is something beyond physical reality), they, nevertheless, depend on a physical carrier. The physical carrier (commonly painting or sculpture) is the medium of expression of the surreal. Thus, an idea is communicable only when the surreal is converted into material terms. The artist’s technical problem is how to transform the material with which he works back into the sphere of the spirit.

 

Hans Hofmann

 

[She is also clearly tickled by the memories of meeting the stars who have guest appearances on the show — Samuel L. Jackson ([ or Sam Jackson, as I call him now... One day, Ben was doing his stuff and Ricky looked at me and went, 'What's Ben Stiller doing here? That's Ben Stiller.' It was a bit like that all the time — surreal.

 

Ben Stiller

 

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You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

 

Irvine Welsh

 

I've just been reading -- stuff to make your hair curl -- you go in that toilet -- that's the sort of stuff people read -- not this sort of thing -- don't you feel out of touch? Does this stuff make money? I bet you're the only person to have read this book -- but I bet you every man in this restaurant has had a read of that stuff in there... makes you think, doesn't it?

 

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