#manipulation

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #manipulation #most #painting #power

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. ↗

— June Jordan

#among #becomes #between #dialogue #each

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent. ↗

— John Sexton

#considerable #correctly #finished #i #i do

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#different #drum #effects #got #i

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#comedy #dark #euphemism #label #manipulation

In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library of Congress, that 'Coca-Cola has become an integral part of people's lives by helping to tell these stories,' it is perhaps not surprising that people have trouble teaching and receiving a novel as complex and flawed as Huck Finn, but it is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us. ↗

— George Saunders

#manipulation #story #integrity

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. ↗

— Charles Fort

#deception #fortean #hypnosis #manipulation #mind-control

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#kindlehighlight #knowledge #manipulation #propoganda #truth

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#humanity #manipulation #life

Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during dirty bomb scares. ↗

— Max Brooks

#manipulation #pharmaceutical-industry #scares #death