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Letter "C" » classics
«In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.»
Author: Amy Lowell
| About:
Literature,
Science
| Keywords:
classics, modern science, newest, oldest, preference, The Classics
«Essentially, a church is a community that keeps alive the dangerous memories of its classics.»
«Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.»
Author: Frank Capra
(Film Director)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
classics, Delusions, quick, smear, smeared, smearing, smears, taking possession
«Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within set bounds; the creations which yesterday were the detested and the obscene become the classics of today.»
Author: Matthew Tobriner
| Keywords:
bounds, classics, creations, detested, monuments, obscene, self-expression, The Classics
«I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.»
Author: Robert Graves
| Keywords:
abroad, attempts, bend, classics, grammar, grammars, honest woman, horror, Rules of, sordid, The Classics, the English, The Rules
«Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absorb, absorbs, apprentice, apprentices, carpenter, classics, find out, good and, master, read, studies, The Carpenters, The Classics, the Master, throw, trash, trashed, Trashing, window, works
«Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Innovation
| Keywords:
classics, innovate, innovating, innovation, The Classics
«The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
authorities, bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, checking, classics, degrade, free expression, preventing, The Classics
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