Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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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.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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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?
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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.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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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.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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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.
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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.
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I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
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I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
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In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.
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The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
