Capacity Quote by Stan Brakhage Download Open image “The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.” — Stan Brakhage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Vulgar
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation,… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Artists are mostly shits of the worst order. You wouldn't want one living next door to you. Think about it: Vincent Van Gogh living… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts. — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black, — Stan Brakhage 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
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
