Art Quote by Michel de Certeau Download Open image ““Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.”” — Michel de Certeau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Reading
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“But the operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts necessitate two distinct agents. It is… — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“Art requires contemplation that focuses attention on the viewer developing a relationship with the work of art, not merely passively receiving a message.” — Daniel A. Siedell Copy Share Image
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“His [the pedestrian's] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
