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Quotations by Subject: Art (81 quotes)

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The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.: Henry L. Ellsworth, U.S. commissioner of patents, Annual Report, 1843
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril.: J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.: Abraham Flexner (1866 - 1959), Universities, part 3, 1930
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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Thomas Hart Benton, Chapter 12, 1897
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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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.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962), Interview, 1958
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An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983), The Count and the Castle, 1957
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