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  • Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

    Art   Truth   Lying  
    The Arts, May 1923
  • Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

    Art   Ideas   Looks  
  • I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

    Art   Believe   Sight  
  • It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

    "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.
  • But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not adistance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,--nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon.

    Art   Distance   Lying  
  • So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The concentrate in areas like social studies, literature, and art - where opinion reigns supreme. And I find their opinions almost universally appalling.

    Art   Ideas   Literature  
  • In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

    Art   Memories   Blood  
  • One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.

    Art   Men   Training  
  • Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

    Art   Truth   Creativity  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

    Art   Wall   Hate  
    JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”
  • Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

    Art   People   Literature  
    "Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.
  • There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

    Art   Independent   Class  
    Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.151, Lulu.com
  • It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

    Art   Views   Doe  
    George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
  • There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

    Fashion   Art   Dresses  
    Benjamin N. Cardozo (2012). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.54, Courier Corporation
  • The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to go where the field hasn't gone before. The result -very exciting children's literature and art ... exciting both for the professional and for the intended audience, the children.

    Art   Children   Dust  
  • You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

    "The Sayings of Disraeli".
  • I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.

    Art   Drinking   Moving  
    "Rosecrans Baldwin Meets His Paris Match". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2012.
  • My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it had a lot of gay literature and art books and he wanted me to be taken care of by the young gays and lesbians who worked for him.

    Art   Father   Book  
    "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.
  • Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

    Art   Men   Thinking  
    Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.225, NYU Press
  • The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

    Art   War   Tired  
    F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

    Art   Law   Medicine  
    "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
  • The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order, which should not and indeed did not disturb the order of business. What has changed in the contemporary period is the difference between the two orders and their truths. The absorbent power of society depletes the artistic dimension by assimilating its antagonistic contents. In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

    Art   Order   Two  
    "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (pp. 60-61), 1964.
  • A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.

    Art   Mean   Greatness  
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