matis Quotes and Quotations
Quote Authors: matis
These are all authors with the name matis.
matis Quotes and Quotations
Below is a random selection of 25 matis quotes and sayings. Refresh to see more sayings and quotes about matis.
- 1
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. George P. Baker | top
- 2
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre. Howard Barker | top
- 3
I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist. Pierre Bayle | top
- 4
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. Daniel Bell | top
- 5
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. Josh Billings | top
- 6
It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it. Hans Blix | top
- 7
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. Edward Bond | top
- 8
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong. Bono | top
- 9
Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote. H. C. Bunner | top
- 10
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote. H. C. Bunner | top
- 11
I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists. Brian Ferneyhough | top
- 12
From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything. Richard Foreman | top
- 13
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. Howard Hodgkin | top
- 14
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. Sidney Hook | top
- 15
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage. Laurence Housman | top
- 16
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. Christopher Lasch | top
- 17
I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world. John McGahern | top
- 18
The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track. Edwin Moses | top
- 19
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. William Osler | top
- 20
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. Alan Perlis | top
- 21
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. Helen Rowland | top
- 22
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. Margaret Chase Smith | top
- 23
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. Thomas Sowell | top
- 24
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation. Oliver Stone | top
- 25
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind. Gustav Stresemann | top
