Intense Quotes - Page 15

• What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things I learned was that most people assume artists know one thing and one thing only - that they were idiot savants. I found very quickly that most artists were very informed and very aware of what was happening in the world around them. So all of those things go together, especially for earthworks. And at that time there was such an intense interest in American art. So there was a great deal of attention paid to where it was going.

  Virginia Dwan

  Art, People, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Kind, Worried

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver, that the expectation is not going to be met, you're going to be disappointed by a wrong turn. But when the thing is completed, the exhilaration and gratitude are deeply intense. You've gotten to read a great thing at its moment of emergence.

  Jonathan W. Galassi

  Gratitude, Book, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't feel like music is getting more intense; I think generally the channel for deeper harmonic saturation is not just a sine wave - but a really crunched sine wave. The trend in music is towards a harmonic saturation. I wouldn't say I'm reacting against that. It's just a personal choice to move into some weird space. This also allows me breathing room in the future. It just felt like the right thing to step back on.

  Tim Hecker

  Moving, Thinking, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Roger Waters isn't a "great" singer but he's always able to communicate this intense desperation. At times he's not even singing, but shouting. There's no melody and his shouting isn't even in key with the song.

  John Congleton

  Song, Water, Singing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I spent half my life without the internet, it was pretty much the same thing just a whole lot slower and a whole lot more intense!

  Visionist

  Internet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. And it's always one of the strange discomforts of the job, that you're in this very intense moment in someone's life - you're engaging with them nonstop - and then suddenly your piece is out and that's done. It always reminds me that the journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the end of the day, that can definitely seem like such a strange, extractive relationship.

  Sarah Stillman

  Real, Trying, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?" and I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. After I saw myself at the MTV Awards, I realized, Wow, I do kind of come off a bit intense. I wasn't upset at MTV at all - I didn't mean to come off that way. But I think it's good if I appeared a bit angry. People are too complacent.

  Fiona Apple

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just feel like I'm in the world right now. There have been times when I haven't felt in the world, when I haven't cared whether I was going to be here or not, so my relationship with being on the earth was probably not as intense. And right now, there's an intensity - I want to be here.

  Nicole Kidman

  World, Earth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don't have an opportunity to observe. It's something that I don't want to lose. I like being unnoticed when I don't feel like being noticed. It's not like I crave attention all the time. Something that I've always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone's character, observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I'm studying it. I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.

  Adrien Brody

  Character, Opportunity, Feelings

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of intense negative feelings - say, in horror films or tragedies as intense as King Lear - but we come out feeling richer. We've lived to the fullest, we've tested ourselves in these environments.

  Brian Boyd

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that has such intense sociality. There are some small mammals that have become eusocial - the mole rats - but that's a different thing. Humans are able to understand one another at very high levels, to cooperate in very large groups. Humans depend on one another in ways that are an absolute precondition to sharing the kinds of information that makes narrative possible.

  Brian Boyd

  Art, Different, Literature

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• One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think if I had to write another novel now I would really not be good in my head anymore. It's too much. The frustration is so intense of knowing that this structure is right around the corner. Writing is a particular kind of frustration.

  Rebecca Miller

  Art, Writing, Frustration

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was really inspired by intense nature and landscapes, and I'm always inspired by open spaces and giving room for things to grow sound-wise and visually. I have a bit of claustrophobia myself which I think translates into my music.

  Chelsea Wolfe

  Thinking, Giving, Inspired

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• I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like irony is fine for its own sake but shouldn't be the sole reason to write a book. It has been an ironic world view: that's the best way I can describe it. I'm a fan of earnestness. I feel like there's a new wave of earnestness and I'd be happy if I'm some small part of that.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Moving, Writing

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• Everyone knows that Theodore Roosevelt was able to wring so much life out of each day, every hour, every minute. And yet, when one is immersed in a detailed, retrospective review of his life, his intense living, his vigor di vita, is nonetheless breathtaking.

  James M Strock

  Breathtaking, Hours, Theodore

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• I'm pushing myself in other, slower directions. Some of the stuff that I'm writing is not necessarily so speedy; it's a different kind of intense that I'm going for now, a more focused intensity. It's good to look at what you've done and think, "What have I not done?" That's why so many artists that have longer careers do change, and sometimes very abruptly, because if you're not interested, how the hell is anybody else supposed to be? If you're bored, everyone else is going to be too.

  Christopher Paul Stelling

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

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• Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers. That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is. There is no American or Frenchhistory. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Distance, Fighting

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• You do actor's job for intense scenes like this - you dream about them - and you get scared until the day it finally happens. But when you feel safe with your partners, the crew, and your director who all did a wonderful job, you get into the zone quickly.

  Stanley Weber

  Dream, Scared, Wonderful

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• A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

  Karl Abraham

  Work, Numbers, Able

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• The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

  James Allen

  Congratulations, Men, Meditation Practice

  James Allen (2007). “The Mastery of Destiny”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

  Fiona Apple

  Lows, Best Times, Highest

  "POP QUIZ - Q & A With Fiona Apple". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 7, 1997.

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• I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

  Ruth Benedict

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strong Women

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.140, Transaction Publishers

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• I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Needs, Obsession, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Ideas, People, Important

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