Hortense Powdermaker famous quotes

The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings.
-- Hortense Powdermaker

#Artist #Culture #Nuance

All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.
-- Hortense Powdermaker

#School #Way #Entertainment

In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.
-- Hortense Powdermaker

#Technology #Thinking #Hollywood

The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from the way dictators use wars and continuous threats of war as an emotional basis for maintaining their power.
-- Hortense Powdermaker

#War #Emotional #Thinking

In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it; the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have it, because they usually lack the knowledge and imagination necessary for making such a choice.
-- Hortense Powdermaker

#Exercise #People #Imagination

Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.
-- Hortense Powdermaker

#Musician #Novelists #Hollywood

Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.
-- Hortense Powdermaker

#Movie #Hollywood #Fantasy

South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.
-- Hortense Powdermaker

#Movie #Kissing #Sea

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.