Erwin Panofsky Quotes
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
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Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.
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Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
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The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.
