Aesthetic Distance Quotes

#1. Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.

Antonin Artaud

#2. If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

Michael S. Horton

#3. If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. A gun is a liar's weapon

Frank Miller

#5. Thoreau was an idiot.

Bill Bryson

#6. So he left her, because in his heart he feared that she was a woman with a divided nature - and he did not realize that all women are creatures of divided nature.

Philippa Gregory

#7. I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he's going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.

Donny Osmond

#8. One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

Keith Carradine

#9. The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

#10. Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark window-panes, snow.

Donna Tartt

#11. Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

Charles Pollock

#12. Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

William Shakespeare

#13. Your fate lies in your hands.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

Patricia C. Wrede

#15. Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.

Richard Wurmbrand

#16. But when folks are down to the one thing that keeps them alive, that one thing can be meanness. It makes you feel like you're there, you're doing something.

Marilynne Robinson