Immediacy Quotes
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Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion
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The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
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Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.
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Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
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I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.
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Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.
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I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
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Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.
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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.
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It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.
