For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.
~By Sergei Eisenstein ~
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
~By Edward Bernays ~
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.
~By Jasper Johns ~
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
~By Garth Ennis ~
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
~By Neil LaBute ~
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
~By Philip K. Dick ~
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
~By Victoria Abril ~
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
~By John Spencer ~
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
~By John Grierson ~
But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.
~By Robert Barnes ~
There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.
~By John Sexton ~
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
~By Norman Spinrad ~
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
~By Donald Trump ~
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
~By Ikue Mori ~
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
~By Gavin Bryars ~
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
~By Ikue Mori ~
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
~By Dean Koontz ~
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines.
~By Robert A. Brady ~
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
~By Henry Ford ~
So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting.
~By Sean Booth ~
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.
~By John Boorman ~
Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
~By Jim Bolger ~
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
~By Kate Millett ~
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
~By Bruce Kent ~
First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
~By Jim Coleman ~
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
~By Javier Bardem ~
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
~By June Jordan ~
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
~By John Perkins ~
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