Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.Rudolf Arnheim
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
Patrick Wilson -
Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
Lana Turner -
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
R. Lee Ermey -
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Patrick White -
I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
Adam Driver -
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
Gary Peters
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
Taylor Swift -
I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
Hal Sparks -
When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
Sally Phillips -
On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
Wanda Jackson -
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Imtiaz Ali -
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.
Tupac Shakur -
Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen -
The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
Linus Torvalds -
'Ridin' up in them GTO's and 4-4-2's, Grand Prix's, S.S's, causes we so so cool'
Ludacris -
You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
Artie Shaw -
A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
Jack O'Connell -
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
Nancy Lublin -
Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.
Martin Lewis Perl -
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
Rachel Kushner -
The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.
Rudolf Arnheim