Susanne Langer Quotes

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Susanne Langer

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• I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

  

  Kate Upton
  • World
  • Career
  • Best

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Plans

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Art
  • Small
  • Media

• When I won't have work, say, after seven or eight years, or when I retire, I can't imagine leaving Hyderabad, because I love this city that much.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • City
  • Retire

• Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • World
  • God

• My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.

  

  Babasaheb
  • May
  • Political
  • Science

• My general taste is towards the melancholy.

  

  Washed Out
  • Taste
  • Melancholy
  • General

• Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Dog

• I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme - if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Important

• As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Effort
  • Patience

• Health clubs aren't healthy. In New York City, which has the most stairs of anywhere in the country, people pay money to go to a health club and use a stair master. When you live in a city, that has nothing but stairs and you pay money to use special stairs, that is not healthy behavior. It's fucking PSYCHOTIC!

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Believe

• Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Circumstances
  • Speaking
  • Declare

• It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Bad Thing

• I started to play noise on my cello because I felt a deep personal connection to it. I mean, I still love all the beautiful sounds of the cello as much as anybody but it's only when I play certain sounds I know that the cello really presents who I am; not my emotions but who I am as a person.

  

  Okkyung Lee
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Deep

• We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Nature

• Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Feelings