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  • Art Quotes   1985
  • There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Book Quotes
  • All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , Race Quotes
  • The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Feminist Quotes
  • But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes
  • When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes
  • The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Jobs Quotes