#disco

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#arguing #art #arts #conversely #discoveries

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#character #different #discovering #experience #expressing

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash? ↗

— Dennis Miller

#cold #discount #ever #hard #idea

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself. ↗

— Betty Ford

#feel #go #inside #look #place

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it. ↗

— Marilyn French

#discover #dominate #effort #emptiness #know

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#cooperate #discovered #essential #ever #free

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#art #artist #audience #creating #discovered

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cannot #discover #help #only #over it

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#discontent #divine #essence #feel #longer

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#choreography #churning #discovery #eight #feeling