"Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants……" — Jamake Highwater
"Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable."
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Jamake Highwater
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15 Quotes by Jamake Highwater
Jamake Highwater has 15 quotes on this site.
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We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an…
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At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize…
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The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as…
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Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended…
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In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep…
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The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape…
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Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their…
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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body…
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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather…
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For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to…
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We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion…
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For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
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In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains…
— Martha Beck
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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed…
— Jimmy Carter
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The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs…
— Unknown Author
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
— Michel de Montaigne
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While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it…
— Andrew Carnegie
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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
— Voltaire
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If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed…
— Jerry Falwell
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments,…
— Barack Obama
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You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as…
— David Attenborough
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In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being…
— Grete Waitz
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Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that…
— Pope Pius XI
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