Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.
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Related Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Profits for auto insurers have skyrocketed with the direct assistance of provincial governments. The... BRUCE CRAN I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time ... ALAN LIGHTMAN Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian r... RUPERT MURDOCH The simplification of anything is always sensational. G. K. CHESTERTON The simplification of anything is always sensational. GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has alw... FERNANDO BOTERO Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of ... NINA GARCIA Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. TED LANGE Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ... RAMANA PEMMARAJU I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; ... BARBARA HEPWORTH There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. JEANE KIRKPATRICK Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w... KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respe... GAYLE LYNDS Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they shoul... ANTHONY BURGESS Your story matters. The thoughts you think matter. The words you use matter. It can be the differenc... KRISTIN RATH The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given... JAMES TURRELL After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved,
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KATE MIDDLETON I'm always a bit suspicious when lyricists call themselves poets, JIM MORRISON I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are cru... LEROY NEIMAN When a word of God is spoken it will always be personal and yet we will find it touching the lives o... JOHN M SHEEHAN Unknown artists, creating what they are told, give their copyrights to the corporations that they wo... MARIA BROPHY I am truly excited about the quality of these three major sculptures, but also about the diversity o... LEWIS SHARP You should always have a Plan C ADNAN BAHATTI I think a lot of people in film and the arts themselves feel kind of helpless, and over the last thr... KIRBY DICK I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always wor... EGON SCHIELE Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate... POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth... POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro... POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi... POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d... POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the... POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ... POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e... POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t... POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow. POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b... POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re... POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther... POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you... POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. POPE JOHN PAUL II We always investigate in cases of unexplained death. This case does not appear to be of a criminal o... GARY DAVIDSON We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scra... JUDITH VIORST The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking p... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST Russell pitched a beautiful game. With the exception of some early walks it could've been a perfect ... DANNY JORDAN A lot of people have wished hard that this day would've come a long time ago. I'm always getting a f... WENDY MURPHY I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We have received calls from various organizations. We don't always know who is giving us information... DOUG MOSIER [Artists] love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form... ROLLO MAY The scars of others should teach us caution. ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men. ST. JEROME Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not... SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth... SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen... SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble... SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir... SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi... SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde... SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o... SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H... SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h... SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ... SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be... SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go... SAINT IGNATIUS Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,... SAINT IGNATIUS The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati... SAINT IGNATIUS We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ... SAINT IGNATIUS We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar... SAINT IGNATIUS
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BERTRAND RUSSELL The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev... BERTRAND RUSSELL One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p... BERTRAND RUSSELL When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ROSALIND RUSSELL It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate... BERTRAND RUSSELL Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. BERTRAND RUSSELL All movements go too far , and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi... BERTRAND RUSSELL When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea... BERTRAND RUSSELL What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. BERTRAND RUSSELL What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ... BERTRAND RUSSELL An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc... RUSSELL BAKER A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran... BERTRAND RUSSELL The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i... BERTRAND RUSSELL Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. BERTRAND RUSSELL Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte... BERTRAND RUSSELL Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have... BERTRAND RUSSELL My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. BERTRAND RUSSELL Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur... RUSSELL BRAND Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve... BERTRAND RUSSELL I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou... RUSSELL HOBAN Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ... PETER RUSSELL Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li... BERTRAND RUSSELL