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To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
by George H. Mead (Philosopher, American , born in 1863) keywords: aesthetic, appreciation, art, attitude, become, enjoyed, enter, into, life, living, may, meanings, nature , part I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.
by Jonathan Miller (Entertainer, British , born in 1934) keywords: against, asking, audience, deconstruction, fashion, gratuitous, indicating, literary, meanings, now, result, sort, think , work It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
by Lewis Mumford (Sociologist, American , born in 1895) keywords: been, man, meanings, nothing, other, principal, remained, sustains, tool, tools, toy, values, without, word, worthless , would The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
by Vance Packard (Writer, American , born in 1914) keywords: ability, between, creative, difference, express, hack, his, indirectly, man, meanings , powerful Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
by Kenneth L. Pike (Sociologist, American , born in 1912) keywords: behavior, clauses, coherent, context, discourse, each, integrating, language, meanings, merely, observer, other, perspective, rules, set, sounds, system, these, total, universe , unrelated Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
by Kenneth L. Pike (Sociologist, American , born in 1912) keywords: change, communication, could, functions, human, meanings, perform, possibility, present , without The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
by Jackson Pollock (Artist, American , born in 1912) keywords: art, deeper, discover, meanings, modern, off, strangeness, think, wear , will Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
by Marcel Proust (Author, French , born in 1871) keywords: centuries, change, course, drastically, meanings, minds, names, our, their, two, words , year Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
by Willard Van Orman Quine (born in 1908) keywords: change, exhibits, labels, languages, meanings, museum, myth, semantics, switch, uncritical, which , words Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
by John C. Ransomkeywords: accents, accident, also, between, discoverable, except, make, meanings, miraculous, mystic, now, objective, ordinarily, relation, rhymes, sense, sounds, structure, their, therefore, uniform, which , words There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
by Bridget Riley (Artist, British , born in 1931) keywords: became, belief, could, disappeared, fixed, focused, interpretation, meanings, open, reality, sort, things, time, uncertain , were When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
by Stephen Spender (Poet, English , born in 1909) keywords: chaos, comprehending, formal, little, master, meanings, poem, read, rich, then , understand I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
by Anne Stevenson (Poet , American) keywords: always, am, any, art, ask, aware, every, friends, ground, itself, language, life, meaning, meanings, multiple, poetry, quiet, really, shy, though , word I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
by Julie Taymor (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: able, being, had, meanings, never, problem, titus, understand , words If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
by William Makepeace Thackeray (Novelist, English , born in 1811) keywords: alongside, author, become, books, could, down, dull, excite, his, history, how, insipid, interesting, many, meanings, noted, private, reader, secret, story, tales, thoughts, volumes, would , written To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
by Zhang Yimou (Director, Chinese , born in 1950) keywords: always, art, deep, meanings, misery, remember, should, subjects , thing
