Elliot W. Eisner Quotes

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

Elliot W. Eisner

• Teach
• Students
• Arts
• Effects

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Society
  • Cinema

• The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Jewelry

• When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Think
  • Look

• Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Best
  • Ideas
  • Sense

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  

  Fanny Brice
  • World
  • Think
  • Know

• For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Better
  • Vanity
  • Slow

• The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • See
  • System

• We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Today
  • Yesterday
  • Myths

• I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Marriage

• And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • School
  • Powerful
  • Choice

• When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • School

• If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Travel
  • Journey

• It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Care

• I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • True
  • Practice

• I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Pretty

• I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Directors
  • Worked
  • Few

• To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

  

  Homer
  • Blessing
  • Divisions
  • Relieve

• To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Desire
  • Revolution
  • Preach

• God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Pieces
  • Purposes

• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.

  

  Valerie Thomas
  • Teach
  • Mistakes
  • Life is

• The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Teach
  • Students
  • Arts