#experience

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ↗

— Mark Twain

#carries #cat #learn #learns #man

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture. ↗

— Otto Dix

#colors #everybody #experience #few #forms

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#body #enough #europeans #experience #i

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#illuminate #lights #like #men #most

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder. ↗

— David Copperfield

#lose #magicians #opportunity #sense #wonder

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#find #living #need #search #searching

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#dictates #experience #feel #feelings #how

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. ↗

— Mos Def

#control #different #experience #hip-hop #how

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. ↗

— Mos Def

#articulate #artist #everyday #experience #express