Susanne Langer Quotes

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

Susanne Langer

• Art
• Reality
• Giving
• Feelings
• Emotion
• Corruption

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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Why

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Art
  • Black
  • Automation

• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Unnecessary

• All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Done
  • Art
  • Me

• The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Choices

• We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Giving
  • Honesty

• I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Up
  • Art
  • History

• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fear

• Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Reality
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• Artists talk in 'art speak.'

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Speak
  • Talk

• The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Strong
  • Emotion
  • Talk

• The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Giving
  • Purpose
  • Language

• You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it.

  

  William Hughes Mearns
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Way

• I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Book
  • Feelings

• I see (humor) in the smallest things.

  

  Hal Hartley

• I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Happy

• The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Giving