John Dewey Quotes

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

I'm a product of my environment.

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

It doesn't matter what I use. It can be anything. What's interesting is how what I'm doing meets with the stuff I use.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

If you don't feel comfortable playing a role, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.