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Letter "A" » artistic
«Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.»
Author: Ignazio Silone
(Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
artistic, doubting, experimenting, literary, philosophic, political liberty, religious liberty, searching
«I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.»
Author: Shelly Winters
| Keywords:
artistic, damaging, disgusting, nudity, On Stage, Out of body experience, patriotic, progressive, shameful, tasteful, The Progressive
«I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Art,
Love
| Keywords:
artistic, feel, Nothing More, There Is Nothing, truly
«Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.»
Author: James Joyce
| Keywords:
artistic, diabetes, grants, heresy, immorality, medical, objective, police, recognizing, rheumatism, theologian, The Police
«I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
artistic, concept, explicit, Good taste, intimacy, living room, polite, Short words, Too Short
«LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
antique, antiques, artistic, brute, diligence, folds, illustration, illustrations, inertia, justly, Laocoon, piece of work, representing, scripture, serpents, that name, The old man
«Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
artistic, description, expressions, extreme, imitation, Monkeys, realism, realistic, tempted
«Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| About:
Suicide
| Keywords:
artistic, careers, punctuation, punctuation mark, suicide
«Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, automation, autonomy, educational, electric, electric fire, electric light, employment, grouped, latent, patterns, supplied, supplied with, warmth
«Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
artistic, comprehend, depth, enjoin, enjoins, immensity, knowable, occupy, spiritual world, urges, urging
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