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• All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Responsibility, Artist, Drawing

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• Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

  Pablo Picasso

  Power, Advice, Information

  Pablo Picasso, Anne Baldassari (2005). “The surrealist Picasso”, Flammarion-Pere Castor

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• As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.

  C. Wright Mills

  Atheism, World, Variables

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• Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel like with food, it is a passion of mine. It's where my sensibility rests. I love topics that are universal, and I love stuff that doesn't alienate people.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Passion, Giving

  "Jim Gaffigan talks Domino's, Law & Order, and having the gall to accept serious acting roles". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2010.

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• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Nice, Two, Guy

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 23, 2013.

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• It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

  George Santayana

  Men, Easy, Unhappiness

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

  Barbara Hershey

  Character, Thinking, People

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• If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

  David Lehman

  Writing, Soul, Reviews

  David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

  Max Irons

  Dad, Thinking, Smoking

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• I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

  Ken Jeong

  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

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• How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.

  Gayle King

  Country, Boys, Cities

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• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  Callie Khouri

  Feminist, Would Be, Deny

  "Interview with Callie Khouri, Director of Mad Money". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• To lose sensibility, to see what one sees,
  As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift,
  To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone,
  As if the paradise of meaning ceased
  To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophy, Sight, Medicine

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.

  Mark Leyner

  Believe, Impossible Things, Seductive

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• I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

  Joanna Newsom

  Get Away, Folks, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Stupid, People

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

  Yves Klein

  Eye, Space, Existential

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.15, 1974.

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• My mom was always a fan of just really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we grew up in Maine, so we didn't have a lot of call for black tie or anything, but I think I definitely got that sensibility from her.

  Anna Kendrick

  Mom, Mean, Thinking

  "Q&A: Anna Kendrick on modeling, movies and music". Interview with Nicole Evatt, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. October 24, 2014.

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• Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

  William Cowper

  Moving, Oysters, Water

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.617

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• Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

  Tony Judt

  Responsibility, Past, Self Questioning

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.114, Penguin

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• The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

  George Howe Colt

  Stars, Shooting, World

  George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined

  Edmund Morris

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Law, Two

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Imagination, Vehicle

  Yves Klein (2006). “Towards the immaterial”, Editions Dilecta

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• In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing. It's just that quality writing commonly has to be sacrificed in order to propel a film into production. A studio needs a star and a director to make a film, so those are the folk who'll define the content. If they don't have the same creative sensibilities, then the content will change.

  Terry Rossio

  Stars, Writing, Order

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