Archive for the “quotes” category
Keeping Their Attention
by Eric on September 12, 2010
From David Mamet’s new book Theatre, but applies equally to just about anything that involves an audience. The job of the dramatist is to get, and that of the actors and directors to keep, the asses in the seats. Period. (…)
The Collaborative Habit by Twyla Tharp
by Eric on December 31, 2009
I just finished Twyla Tharp’s The Collaborative Habit, the follow-up to her successful 2005 book, The Creative Habit. Here are some of my favorite passages: “A great partnership is a lab where change happens every day.” “In any collaboration, no (…)
On Collecting Art
by Eric on April 5, 2009
The desire to collect art begins with attraction. There’s an urge to be near a thing of beauty, and over time, when you’re with something like that, with something beautiful, a relationship begins to form, and that relationship begins to (…)