Susanne Langer Quotes
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Susanne Langer
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
Nadia Comaneci
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. Abrams
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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
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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
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
Walter Lang
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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
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My general taste is towards the melancholy.
Washed Out
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Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.
Anthony Burgess
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Anthony de Mello
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So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?
Linus Torvalds
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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
Carrie Underwood
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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
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We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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You can't rush inspiration.
Colson Whitehead
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It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
Antonin Dvorak
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
Aristotle
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Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Susanne Langer
