I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify.
Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.
To clarify, the issue isn't that I'm too fat, it's that I'm too phat. Can I get a WHAT-WHAT!
Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear
For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.
I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind.
Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.
There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.
The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.
Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.
Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.
If you don't know what you're being asked to do, make sure you clarify. I think people in every business are afraid to ask questions.
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.
Afflictions clarify the soul.
