“Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.” PeopleHumansIndividualSocialHuman NatureTheoryBehaviorModelsEconomicsComplexesObservationLimitationBehaveRelyAbstractSubtleGroundedFree MarketRationalismSocial BehaviorCrackpots Author:Ellen Willis
“Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose. The choice is not whether to remain in the field of data or to theorize; the choice is only between models that are more or less abstract, generalized, near or more remote from direct observation, more or less suitable to represent observed phenomena.” FactsChoicesFieldsExpressionTheoryModelsConceptsDirectObservationDataAbstractYou ChooseSuitable Author:Ludwig von Bertalanffy
“When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the only point. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to be of the Robin Williams or Jonathan Winters model, where observation and storytelling was important.” PeopleWantLittlesImportantWantedUsedFeltVoiceWatchesRichModelsWinterStorytellingObservationFrankRobinsImpressionists Author:Frank Caliendo
“The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.” IfsSoulMountainModelsEmptyBlindMedicinePaintPainterObservationImpulseEncountersBottlesShelves Book:Adventure of painting Source: Adventure of painting