“The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.” WayAbsolutesObservationConcentrationMaximumMuster Author:Lucian Freud
“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.” PeopleMindMatterCharacterActionForgetActingLaughingMinutesShapesDirectorsAbsolutesRelateConcentrationSnapsGiggle Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.” GivingMindBodyLightEnergyProcessRoomsKnowingReadyExpressionEgoNegativeBasesAbsolutesFoundationGenuineBreathingConcentrationAllowingFloodDroppingPositive Energy Author:Marion Woodman
“It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious.” WayWarSeemsClearSeaTragedyAbsolutesSurpriseContemporaryConfusedConcentrationCampsSuspiciousAestheticsGrindSkeletonsConcentration Camp Author:Paul Virilio
“This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.” PeopleBelieveDoneRealityNumbersMillionsFourIgnoranceTestsAbsolutesBehaveArroganceGasConcentrationCampsDogmaAshesPondsAscentAuschwitzConcentration Camp Book:The Ascent of Man Source: The Ascent of Man
“I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.” PeopleIfsMenFeelingsWantedRememberBeliefFateImagineHe ManDeterminationAbsolutesPaintShouldersNecksConcentrationDisappointedPassivePapaBeing Disappointed Author:Susan Vreeland