Jennifer Tipton famous quotes

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.
-- Jennifer Tipton

#Past #Doe #Attention

I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changing fluidly from one place to another without seeming effort.
-- Jennifer Tipton

#Eye #Effort #Atmosphere

I feel also that the rhythm of a production is made by the lighting. If it feels like it's too long and too slow, it may well be because the light is changing in a way that makes the audience feel that way. Definitely I feel that light and music are very closely related.
-- Jennifer Tipton

#Light #Long #May

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.
-- Jennifer Tipton

#Art #Dirty #People

I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.
-- Jennifer Tipton

#Believe #Hands #Years

After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.
-- Jennifer Tipton

#Years #Giving #Feelings

There is a way to support the art and to allow and encourage the art to flourish while being critical. In fact, I find in teaching that self-critique is one of the best ways to have your art grow, but if you start tearing yourself down then, it's not going to go anywhere. I feel the same about critics. I feel that's happening all too often.
-- Jennifer Tipton

#Art #Teaching #Self

I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to something else because they got such a raw deal from critics, and some are quite wonderful writers.
-- Jennifer Tipton

#Age #Would Be #Gone

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.