Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
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CARL ANDRE Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pret...
MARK WAID Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Pra...
KURT VONNEGUT I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
CARL ANDRE There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is...
MAO ZEDONG Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the s...
MAX BECKMANN I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
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ALBERT BROOKS The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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ALAN MOORE Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
YU CAO Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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HALLE BERRY Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
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LINDSEY STIRLING Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mir...
WALTER GROPIUS Every treatment is a lie. If you care you cure.
APURVA GAGLANI Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in...
CAITLIN MORAN To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if y...
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MAO ZEDONG As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball ga...
REX STOUT Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primari...
STIEG LARSSON All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
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ELIZABETH KOSTOVA Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order...
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W.H. AUDEN A three-pint problem
MELVYN SMALL The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
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JIM BENTON I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' com...
ANDY BIERSACK If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do...
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WOLE SOYINKA (Mary's) research is expanding our views of music education beyond schooling and 'art for art's sake...
JAMES DAUGHERTY strength to unity unity through faith
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OTTO PENZLER We try to keep the arts going, because it seems (art projects) are the first to go.
ELIZABETH SHEETS He never pretended to know about art or theater, but he knew the arts were important for the communi...
BOB BARTON Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets...
KAREN DECROW Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community di...
LOUIS MACNEICE In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothin...
HEYWOOD HALE BROUN This is a true fine arts show, not an arts and crafts show. In the scope of today's world, fine art ...
JENNY TAYLOR Our life is our masterpiece, it's up to us on how we paint our story. It's up to us how we see the s...
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SUSAN HUBBARD ينتهي شهر العسل عندما نتوقف عن التنهد ونبدأ في التثاؤب
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SHAUN TAN The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
KAREN KAIN The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The struggle against a purpose in art is always a struggle against the moral tendency in art - again...
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MARIE WINDSOR Fashion design isn't just art for art's sake. You must be able to take it to the consumer.
JOSEPH ABBOUD Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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JAMES GRAY The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess p...
T.S. ELIOT When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
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CHARLES V I came, I saw, God conquered.
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E. V. LUCAS There are two words for everything.
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E. V. LUCAS There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E V LUCAS Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
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[Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]
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While there is a criminal element, I am of it.
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EUGENE V. DEBS Behind every successful man, there is a woman; and behind her there is envy...
ANKALA V SUBBARAO CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the ...
MARK V. HURD We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same...
RICHARD V. ALLEN The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent tim...
RICHARD V. ALLEN My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot,...
PETER V. BRETT I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
EUGENE V. DEBS I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth throug...
KING GEORGE V Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and ...
V. E. SCHWAB A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of wa...
HERBERT V. PROCHNOW Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of gov...
RICHARD V. ALLEN Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command ...
RICHARD V. ALLEN There have been discussions of doing 'The Demon Cycle' on both large and small screen scale,...
PETER V. BRETT Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton...
RICHARD V. ALLEN Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for ...
EUGENE V. DEBS Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, ...
MARIA V. SNYDER Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repeti...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molec...
C. V. RAMAN