Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Edmund Snow Carpenter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American anthropologist Edmund Snow Carpenter.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Edmund Snow Carpenter

Edmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter was an American anthropologist best known for his work on tribal art and visual media.

If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.
The White House is now essentially a TV performance. — © Edmund Snow Carpenter
The White House is now essentially a TV performance.
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly."
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