Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.

Anna Deavere Smith
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More Quotes By Anna Deavere Smith
  1. Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.

  2. I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have...

  3. The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get...

  4. Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.

  5. We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

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