- Best Part
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Exposition Quotes
On saying things clearly instead of simply saying them at length.
Good exposition should aid understanding, and these quotes debate exactly where that line sits, whether in a philosophical argument or a symphony's structure. For thoughts on craft and creative form, see our Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's like, in movies where you talk to the audience 90 percent of the time, it's - you kind of want to stay away from that stuff. But, you know - but to write exposition brilliantly is hard.
- Doing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.
- Business
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
- Follow
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
- Find
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.
- Simple
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
- Place
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
- Loved
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There were a bunch of things we really liked right off the bat about a police precinct. We loved how instantly relatable it was. We loved how little exposition was required to tell people who these guys were and what they were doing.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
- Partner
- |
- Nov 07, 2020