Ellen Hunnicutt Quotes
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual through the senses is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.
Quotes to Explore
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
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No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
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I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.
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Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
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The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.
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I sat on the concrete stump, collecting snow atop my dome, benumbed and befucked by my colossal overpowering lack of knowledge.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual through the senses is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.
