Didactic Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's…
— David Attenborough
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
— D. H. Lawrence
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It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a…
— Paul Copan
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the…
— Otto Rank
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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
— John Shirley
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel.…
— Stanley Kubrick
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We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another…
— Erik Satie
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A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.
— Edmund Morgan
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This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works…
— Peter Greenaway
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do…
— Shirin Neshat
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Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.
— Robert Creeley
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
— Joan D. Vinge
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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop…
— Brit Marling
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose…
— Eugenio Montale
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Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he…
— Northrop Frye
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I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to…
— Jonathan Nolan
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The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
— Philip Schaff
Who Wrote These Didactic Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Didactic Quotes as follows: