Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
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We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.
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Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
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The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.
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Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.
