Susanne Langer Quotes
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.
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I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
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It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
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Fermat said he had a proof.
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Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.
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Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.
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Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.
