Spontaneity Quotes - Page 13

• It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Judging, Criticism

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Years, Giving

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• I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

  Virgil Thomson

  Discipline, Lovely, Asking

  Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

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• Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its formulas are naturally unintelligible in their literal tenor; for, otherwise, they would represent that which is scientifically known, and would not be the mere provisional clothing of that which is not objectively given, but subjectively projected from the inmost depth of the soul.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Generosity, Soul, Depth

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “The Blazing Star”, p.6

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• The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Numbers, Individuality

  "Elementarism". De Stijl - Van Doesburg Issue, p. 17 - 19, January 1932.

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• Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Giving, Classic, Structure

  "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

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• The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.

  Philippe Aries

  Strength, Music, Hero

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

  Adam Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Self

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• Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

  Marni Nixon

  Presence Of Mind, Situation, Performers

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• What I've learned is that love is made up of three ingredients: consideration, spontaneity, and [whispers] oral sex for guys and women.

  Damien Lemon

  Sex, Love Is, Guy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's a precision process. Doing it on stage would be, I think, terrifying. Doing it on film has its own difficulties, because film is not conducive to spontaneity. You might have a run through and get a few chuckles at eight o'clock in the morning, but you don't keep laughing at the same thing all day long.

  Colin Firth

  Running, Morning, Thinking

  "Gambit - Colin Firth interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• So, you don't have laughs as a reference point any more, it becomes a bit of a science after that. And the last thing, you would love to be able to depend on a sense of spontaneity, but hours of waiting and then hours of repetition are not conducive to spontaneity so those are your obstacles. On the other hand it's a lot of fun. Plunging into a bit of physical comedy and abandoning all dignity, no one can really hurt you much after you much after that, once you've done it.

  Colin Firth

  Hurt, Fun, Hands

  "Gambit - Colin Firth interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

  Robert Bresson

  Instant, Freshness

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.18, New York Review of Books

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• I'm a huge fan of Jesus Culture. I absolutely love them. I listen to them a lot. My wife loves them as well. I'm unashamedly a Jesus Culture fan. I love the spontaneity. They'll play a song and it will go for like 25 minutes. That kind of worship, and how they lead people into the presence of God, is just awesome.

  Reuben Morgan

  Song, Jesus, Play

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Empty, Superficial

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• What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make quite brutal adaptations of the material to make it work on stage. I don't always like doing that because sometimes you're shaving away the things that you actually quite like about them, the spontaneity of it.

  Squarepusher

  Past, Shaving, Sometimes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.

  Andy Daly

  Fun, Writing, Feels

  "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• [As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club. For me music was not about that. It is about freedom and expression and individuality and impulsiveness and spontaneity. It wasn't so Apollonian; it was more Dionysian.

  Bjork

  School, Kids, Expression

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.stereogum.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Over the last two or so decades, there's been an increase in thinking among the Left, liberals, intellectuals in the direction of so-called spontaneity. In other words that uprisings happen spontaneously, people are frustrated, angry, then they spontaneously rise up. And what they don't require is preparation, or what we used to call leadership.

  Vijay Prashad

  Thinking, Uprising, Two

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

  Vijay Prashad

  Preparation, Neoliberalism, Kind

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

  Vijay Prashad

  Uprising, Preparation, Important

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the West. That's where they sought their security; I don't think there was a way to avoid that. If we tried to exclude them, we would have today not one Europe, we would have three Europes: one in the West, one in the middle and one in the East, and the middle would be insecure and a tempting target. The insecurity felt [today] by Eastern Europe would be replicated on a much larger and more consequential scale.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearworld.com

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• It's up to us to make the accommodations for all sorts of different travel scenarios. It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.

  Zach Anner

  Tunes, Different, Needs

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity that keeps a work fresh and funny. If they can see how hard you work, if they can see the beads of sweat, it's no good. I always try to make it look easy.

  Edward Sorel

  Art, Trying, Problem

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Comedy, sometimes if you think about it too much then it becomes a bit boring. If you start thinking about striking the right balance sometimes it takes the spontaneity out of it.

  Mark Critch

  Thinking, Balance, Comedy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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