“A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.” ThinkingArtMatterBeautifulEmotionIndustryDisciplineTasteSkillsArt IsProportionWorks Of ArtBeautiful Thoughts Book:The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.” IfsMenGivingShouldYearsMindYoungSpiritSocialConsciousnessTakenCollegeDisciplineTasteTrainingStandardsEnlightenmentLaborCatholicInsightReleaseFaithfulGentlemanVowCandorGive And TakeManlinessSportsmanEsprit De CorpsYoung Gentlemen Author:Woodrow Wilson
“My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.” HeartLongCharacterPainMotherLiteratureInfluenceDisciplineTastePatientResolveAccurateChaptersMolding Author:John Ruskin
“Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.” ThinkingWorldSelfInterestCommonDisciplineTasteCapacityAnd LoveSmellCommon SenseInnocenceConformityVeilsSelf InterestDeludedSupposingTruth And LoveTaste And Smell Book:The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise Source: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
“The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.” IfsMenWritingKindDifferentTermViewsCommonWatchesDisciplineTasteOfficeCriticsBoxesCritiqueCommon ManBox OfficeReviewers Author:Ang Lee