“The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.” WorldWholeReadingCommonMankindEventsBeatsNewspapersReactionsCivilizedPulseCommon ManSimultaneous Author:Christian Lous Lange
“My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.” IfsWayLooksArtIdeasDifferentWholeSongCreatingArt IsDown AndChaosReactionsDifferent WaysUpside DownTornadoesThings Upside Down Author:Marilyn Manson
“The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.” WayNeedsGivingHeartLittlesWholeActionDrugAdvantageReactionsAddictManipulateDrug AddictProvidersAction And Reaction Author:Miguel
“It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!” WritingTryingPersonsEndsWholeMomentsFeelingsActionMemoriesReaderDespairChaosWideRageUnhappyReactionsVainAssociationGesturesJungleAlways TryingAction And Reaction Book:Blue Voyage: A Novel Source: Blue Voyage: A Novel
“I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.” WayTryingHumansWholeShowsBodyExpressionHealthyDecidedReactionsHuman BodyRippedExpressionism Author:Philip Pearlstein