Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.
Elliot W. Eisner
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson
I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
L'Wren Scott
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn
If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
Olivia De Havilland
I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
Halsey
I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
Hannah Kearney
The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
Adam Driver
'And how are you?', said Winnie-the-Pooh. (...)'Not very how', he said. 'I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.'
A. A. Milne
On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.
Walter Scott
Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?
H. L. Mencken
A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
Wallace Stevens
Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.
Ludovico Ariosto
I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.
John Stossel
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
Dana Spiotta
Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.
Agrippina Vaganova
The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.
Dalai Lama
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.
Elliot W. Eisner
