Didactic Quotes

24 quotes by 24 authors

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
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
Itâ€™s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I donâ€™t want to ever… — Tim Wynne-Jones
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a… — Paul Copan
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
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. — John Shirley
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
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
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. — Edmund Morgan
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
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
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
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
Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information. — Robert Creeley
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. — Joan D. Vinge
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
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
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
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
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. — Philip Schaff

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