Erwin Panofsky Quotes
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.Erwin Panofsky
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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.
Viggo Mortensen -
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary -
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard -
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
Kat Graham -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi -
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
Ian Lustick -
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown -
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
Barbra Streisand -
In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
Vince McMahon -
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.
Candice Olson -
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.
Vanessa Morgan
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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.
Yami Gautam -
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.
J. G. Ballard -
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.
Malcolm Turnbull -
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.
Eddi Reader -
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
Nathalie Sarraute -
I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.
Ram Dass
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...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
William Shakespeare -
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.
Joanne Rowling -
I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.
David Blaine -
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
Andre Malraux -
When I deal with folks I know casually, that are either famous or were famous. To be a big star, you have to be a little delusional. Nothing else matters than being that star. It's a bit weird.
Alex Meneses -
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.
Erwin Panofsky