Quotes by Anecdotes Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit. Mark Rothko anecdotesspiritart (I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. Mark Rothko anecdotesmythspirit Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. Mark Rothko anecdotesmeanart What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote. Martin Heidegger anecdotesbornanswers Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up. Matt Walsh anecdotesstoriesmight The plural on anecdote is not evidence Michael Mauboussin anecdotesevidence Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. Michael Ondaatje anecdoteshelping There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes. Nicolas Chamfort anecdotesattentionhistory Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things? Pablo Picasso anecdoteslibertyphotography Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to. Peter Block anecdotesbiblicalgiving As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. Robert Quillen anecdotesagefunny And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. Robert Louis Stevenson anecdoteslittlesmen Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it. Roger Ebert anecdotescamerasguilt It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential. Scott McClanahan anecdotesbookfiction [He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary. Scott McClanahan anecdotescouplebook This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either. Scott McClanahan anecdotesperfectbook A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. Steve Martin anecdotesselfadvice Anecdotes generate questions, not answers. Steven Novella anecdotesanswers In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin to write a book, I do not know how it will come out, what it will say in the end. If I already did, I wouldn't need to write it." Thomas L. Dumm anecdoteswritingbook History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed. Thomas Kuhn anecdotessciencehistory«1234»
