My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
More Quotes from David Antin:
Nobody has paid much attention to the structure of my books as books, probably because the individual works all begin in performance.David Antin
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
David Antin
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
David Antin
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
David Antin
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
David Antin
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
David Antin
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Idea QuotesI'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.
Mo Rocca
I like having the dough to come and go as I please.
Bruce Willis
I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.
Billy Sherwood