Emerson School For Visual and Performing Arts

Famous quotes containing the words performing arts, emerson, school, visual, performing and/or arts:

“More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.”
—Uta Hagen (b. 1919)

“The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things—”He saw that they were good.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)

“Bottom. What is Pyramus? A lover or a tyrant?
Quince. A lover that kills himself, most gallant, for love.
Bottom. That will ask some tears in the true performing of it. If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)