Erwin Panofsky Quotes

While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

Erwin Panofsky

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• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

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• We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.

  

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• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

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• The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

  

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• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  

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• The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

  

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• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

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• Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?

  

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• I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

  

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• Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.

  

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• Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

  

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• And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.

  

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• So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine.

  

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• My last meal on Earth? The obvious answer is a plate of my mother's scrambled eggs.

  

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• I think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.

  

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• One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other... I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters.

  

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• I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

  

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• All I can do is to try and make the future better.

  

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• Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

  

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• Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

  

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• Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

  

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• My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

  

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• While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

  

  Erwin Panofsky
  • Art
  • Danger
  • Prostitute