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Art
«What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.»
«We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, And our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art»
«We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.»
Author: Jennie Jerome Churchill
| About:
Adventure,
Art
| Keywords:
extravagance, extravagances, hand in hand, in hand
«Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.»
«Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.»
«We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.»
«We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
ignoramus, ignoramuses, psychology