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Quotes About Sensibility

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
~ Oscar Wilde
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.
~ Bill Jay
I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.
~ Ken Osmond
I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.
~ Unknown
L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility.
~ Steve Erickson
I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.
~ Jonathan Krisel
Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.
~ Farhan Akhtar
We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding.
~ Peter Greenaway
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Alternatively, we could say that voice embodies, not any set of particular facts, but the presence of a self, a personality or a sensibility.
~ Tony Hoagland
The goal of the poem is not to conceal uncertainty and to deliver an airtight argument, or proclamation, or insight, not to arrive at some truth, but rather to display the nature of the speaker's "real-time" sensibility, including its tendency toward indecisiveness and self-contradiction.
~ Tony Hoagland
Oh, I shall plead guilty at once,' said Stephen. 'And I shall add that I was sitting in the powder-magazine with a naked light at the time, imagining the death of the King, wasting my medical stores, smoking tobacco and making a fraudulent return of the portable soup. What solemn nonsense it is' – laughing heartily – 'I am surprised so sensible a man as you should attribute any importance to the matter.
~ Patrick O'Brian
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
~ Paul Cezanne
The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.
~ Gu Cheng
I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
~ Erykah Badu
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.
~ Louis Menand
Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
~ Shannon L. Alder
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.
~ William Shakespeare
La pregunta Escena II LINCOLN: La guerra no tiene nada que ver. Es mi sensibilidad hacia los sentimientos humanos.
~ Woody Allen
Para acabar con las películas de terror El conde Drácula Así pasa el tiempo hasta que el alcalde, que ya no puede soportar la situación, abre de golpe la puerta del armario y grita: -¡Vamos, Drácula! Siempre pensé que usted era una persona sensata. ¡Déjese de locuras!
~ Woody Allen
Adults arrogantly talked about whether food tasted good or not, as if a gourmet sensibility put you in a superior class of people
~ Y?ko Tawada
You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.
~ Christopher Nolan