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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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.
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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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Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.
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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 don't have a philosophy of caricature. I'm not even sure I am a caricaturist, in the strictest sense of the word - I don't really exaggerate much. For a while, recently, I was thinking of attempting a reverse-caricature of Donald Trump; he certainly already appears to be a caricature of himself. I wondered about de-caricaturizing him, scaling back his whole face and hair and visual excess, and attempting to shed light on him that way.
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After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.
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You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it.
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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
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The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
