Canon Quotes - Page 5

• My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon.

  Claire Danes

  Husband, Artist, Hitchcock Movie

  "Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview ME AND ORSON WELLES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Realization, Dissection, Suspicion

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.

  Fady Joudah

  Jobs, Lying, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Memoir

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Dream, Literature, Painting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.

  Emily Barton

  Crazy, Writing, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.

  Laura Mullen

  Ideas, Stories, Shapes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Self, Special

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your benefit, in terms of figuring out who you are, you gain in the ability to just be whoever you want to be.

  Dallas Roberts

  Book, Want, Gains

  Source: collider.com

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• And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.

  Luther Burbank

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

  Nancy Mairs

  Law, Use, Our Society

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• Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

  Tyler Cowen

  Rooms, Visitors, Proust

  Tyler Cowen (2000). “What Price Fame?”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

  Bernard Bailyn

  War, Ideas, Political

  "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, 1967.

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• In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Lines, Might, Theory

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.89, M.E. Sharpe

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• Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

  Fujio Mitarai

  Fall, People, Debt

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Canon's Fujio Mitarai". Interview with Irene M. Kunii, www.bloomberg.com. February 11, 2002.

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• Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.

  Fujio Mitarai

  People, Principles, Doe

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• The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Father, Important, Scripture

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses”

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• Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

  Anne Lamott

  Reading, Mind, Great Work

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon, when we read the Tibetan books, when we read anything inspiring - somebody else's journey into the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Book, Journey

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• But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.

  J. I. Packer

  Eye, Would Be, Narrative

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.

  Jeff Vespa

  Mother, Cutting, Zines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.

  Jeff Vespa

  Beautiful, Mom, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

  Richard Neutra

  Design, Architect, Deals

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• [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

  George Will

  Revenge, Writing, Giving

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• Look at the history of civil laws in our world and the source from which they emerged, and you will see that the vast majority of them arose directly from, or where based in principle on, Roman Canon Law, or the laws of other religious origin. Sharia is another notable example.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Religious, Law, Our World

  "A Revolution Is What’s Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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