Quotes About Response

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to 'Wow! Huh?'

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.

My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.