Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening. — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment. — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go,… — Aaron Funk Copy Share Image
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when… — William O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.' — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool… — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image