Susanne Langer Quotes
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Susanne Langer
Quotes to Explore
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
Irvine Welsh
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
Walt Handelsman
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Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
Umberto Eco
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
Ira Glass
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I adore burgers. I know they are bad for me, and only technically a sandwich, but a well made burger, juicy and hot off the grill, is wonderful!
Faith Hunter
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That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
Branford Marsalis
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There's a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority.
Mark Kirk
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People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.
Elizabeth Warren
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus
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I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'
Cameron Diaz
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All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Susanne Langer
