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

• 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
  • Want
  • Know
  • Moon

• 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
  • Science
  • Political

• My general taste is towards the melancholy.

  

  Washed Out
  • Taste
  • Melancholy
  • General

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

  

  Anthony Burgess

• Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Silence

• 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

• For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Insecurity

• I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • God
  • Believe
  • Art

• Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Time
  • Way
  • Feelings

• It's dangerous to have feelings when you don't have any money.

  

  Ariana Reines
  • Money
  • Feelings
  • Have

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

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Feelings