Cole Swensen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My focus is on the rhythmic relationship between body and ground and the visual relationships among the elements of the always-changing scene.
-- Cole Swensen

#Focus #Scene
Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conversations around translation, or even as two disassociated phenomena that can be brought together to collaborate with more or less success, I think of sound as sense. Sound has its own meaning, and it's one of the many non-semantic dimensions of meaning in language. I want to emphasize is the formal dynamic between language-as-information and language-as-art-material.
-- Cole Swensen

#Thinking #Together #Language
I've always been interested in the principle of the fractal, which is typified by self-similarity across scale, which both puts a lot of pressure on a specific viewer's perspective and opens up the number of "correct" viewing positions infinitely, in this way thwarting the power-related implications of traditional, Renaissance single-point perspective.
-- Cole Swensen

#Perspective
If you're deeply engaged in an event, you're part of it. But if you're outside of it, disinterested, you are the regard that registers history. And that disinterestedness is different from objectivity. The objective view sees only the event, while the disinterested one participates as well as views by creating that link to history. It's a type of viewing that's both inside and out of the event, that brings to the viewing the capacity for human emotion, for compassion, but holds it openly. And objectivity excludes the human element, and is therefore not a point of view open to humans.
-- Cole Swensen

#Compassion #Different #Emotion
Being in unfamiliar places has no effect on my writing, except that it often means I'm caught up in the logistics of travel, the places and people on the spot, etc., etc., which can mean that I don't have the time to write. But I try, wherever I am, to take a couple of hours in the early evening to go off and write. Because I never write from personal experience, per se, where I am makes no difference except for this element of available time.
-- Cole Swensen

#Couple #Writing #Mean
At the end of any of my project I miss the material. I pick subjects I love and then get very engaged with them, so stopping that engagement often feels odd and arbitrary, but there's a moment when I don't want to change anything else and when the shape and length feels right. At that point, continuing would be destructive.
-- Cole Swensen

#Missing #Odd #Moments

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.
I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.
Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.
Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a movie whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

Cole Swensen famous quotes

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