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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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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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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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've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
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Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.
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I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.
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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
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If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.
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They are really just special young ladies. They're daughters. They're great daughters. It felt good today. It felt good to see them smile.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
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When a Mormon knocks, they say, 'Can I teach you about Jesus Christ?' And if you say no, they'll say, 'Then how can I be of service to you?' So anybody who was smart would be like, 'You can take out my trash and mow my lawn.'
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The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
