Anna Deavere Smith Quotes About Reality

• Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Reality, Artist, People

  "Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Yazmany Arboleda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

• We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Reality, Discipline

• Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Communication, Reality, Desire

• Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Fall, Reality

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.124, Anchor

• You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Character, Reality, Expression

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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