"Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent,……" — Jamake Highwater
"Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails."
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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