John Barth
John Barth
John Simmons Barthis an American writer, best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
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You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.
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It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.
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Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.
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Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
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In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
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These commodity costs are still something we're wrestling with, but it also gives us opportunities to have different discussions with our customers than certainly we could have had a year ago. We're in a very good position to continue to invest in that business.
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The residential market represents a whole new opportunity for us that we previously hadn't been able to participate in. We'll be able to change the playing field against some of our competitors.
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There's no question we can bring some expertise, ... I'm sure they have some as well. But we're recognized as the benchmark in the industry on the automotive side.
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Johnson Controls is honored to be recognized by the socially responsible investment community for our commitment to sustainable business practices,
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We're really in a unique position with three very strong businesses that complement each other. It's about growth.
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More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations
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Mainly it's the public documents of the defendants that will prove the case.
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When we look at acquisitions, we really look at it as platform growth.