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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We have a good team, and I think we'll have a good season this year.
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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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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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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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I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is cool, but in the same breath I still like what I do without anyone's approval. It's still good music.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
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there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.
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I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.
