Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.
Quotes to Explore
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
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I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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Everything does go in a circle.
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The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
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When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
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I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.
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But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted.
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I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.
