William Upski Wimsatt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Think it over, think it under.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

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