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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
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Pearl S. Buck, China, Past and Present, 1972
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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William Faulkner (1897 - 1962), Interview, 1958
An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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Rebecca West (1892 - 1983), The Count and the Castle, 1957
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Elective Affinities
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Back to Methuselah, 1921
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Seven Lectures to a Young Man, 1844
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