“I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.” IfsWantEndsArtistDifficultCan DoMistakeSolutionsDifficultyTricksAcademicDead Ends Author:Isamu Noguchi
“To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.” LooksArtTurnsLiteratureDifficultCenturySkillsDegreesDetermineImpulseAcademicFlatteryTwentieth CenturyAcademyCalculationsEsotericHermeneutics Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say? Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?
“If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.” IfsThinkingWritingPersonsUseLanguageDifficultEmotionAcademicVocabularyAnglo Saxon Author:Lydia Davis
“Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.” WantWritingLittlesSometimesStrongBitsDifficultDifferencesPayAttentionLittle BitClaimsAcademicBlogsBack And ForthNavigateAcademic Work Author:Alex Tabarrok
“What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.” ThinkingMenNeedsPhilosophyAgeDifficultGoalTermAbilityAbsenceVanityAspirationDeniedAcademicMaladyIrreligionWrong Thinking Author:Krishnananda Saraswati
“I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.” PeopleWayIdeasAbleCertainDifficultTalkingMovementTheoryReaderNormalCriticalNarrativeVisualsAttachmentAcademicEngagingNormal LifeTheorists Author:Dean Spade
“In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.” KnowsSchoolDifficultStudentsTypeComplainingAcademicKnow It AllMusic EducationAlways Complaining Author:Bjork