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Jonathan Miller quotes

British Entertainer July 21, 1934

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You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity. Jonathan Miller
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. Jonathan Miller
I was just rather fascinated by certain what seemed to me insoluble paradoxes about reflection, about what it was like to look in one direction and see in another. I was struck by the strange capability we have to look through the front window of a motor car and at the same time look through the driving mirror and not to confuse the view that one saw inside one frame with the view that surrounded it in another frame. Jonathan Miller
It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller quote: "People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art..."
People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw. Jonathan Miller
I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist. Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller quote: "People are already self-selected by the time they've decided..."
People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists. Jonathan Miller
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. Jonathan Miller
As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated. Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller quote: "Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep..."
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller quote: "The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of..."
The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world. Jonathan Miller
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that. Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller quote: "The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when..."
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. Jonathan Miller
I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison. Jonathan Miller
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence. Jonathan Miller

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