#posing

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #art #civilization #contemporary #contemporary art

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it. ↗

— John Chamberlain

#imposing #interested #material #me #more

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#strength #values #wisdom

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#dance #exposing #ideas #intense #itself

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

Composing demands a degree of isolation. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#degree #demands #isolation

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#create #drawing #effects #exposing #film

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#constantly #exposing #i #inspires #me

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. ↗

— Walter Pater

#comes #frankly #give #highest #highest quality