Hortense Powdermaker quotes
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“The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings.”
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“All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.”
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“In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.”
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“The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from the way dictators use wars and continuous threats of war as an emotional basis for maintaining their power.”
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“In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it; the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have it, because they usually lack the knowledge and imagination necessary for making such a choice.”
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“Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.”
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“Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.”
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“South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.”
-- Hortense PowdermakerSource : Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers introduction (1950)
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“I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.”
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Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
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“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press
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Source : Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr
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“Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.”
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“I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.”
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