T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Occupation Quotes

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.

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Tags : Abigail Solomon-Godeau Quotes , Photography Quotes , Art Quotes

Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Art Quotes , Giving Up Quotes

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

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Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Art Quotes , Eye Quotes

Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Art Quotes , Pain Quotes

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Art Quotes , Blessing Quotes

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Art Quotes , Strong Quotes

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

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I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Art Quotes

I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.

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