Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

Andre Dubus III

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Bliss Carman

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

Barbara Goldsmith

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

bell hooks

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Henry Hazlitt

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

John Desmond Bernal

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Laura Riding

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Maira Kalman

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

Peter Singer

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.

Robert Pinsky

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the be...

Said Nursi

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36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

¿El arte de amar ? Saber unir el temperamento de un vampiro y la discreción de una anémona.

All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

The Allegory of the Cave

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Art as Experience

Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

Artemis Fowl