David Antin Quotes
Top 29 wise famous quotes and sayings by David Antin
David Antin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
An art machine is a system
whose parts when put in motion
act upon each other in such a way
as to cause you to see things differently
whose parts when put in motion
act upon each other in such a way
as to cause you to see things differently
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.