The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and…

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits…

— Walter Pater

If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on it because…

— Steve Toltz

Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part…

— Susan Sarandon

I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they…

— Will Ferrell

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

— Jim Goldberg

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

— Tony Campolo

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence,…

— John Ortberg

I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing…

— Faye Wattleton

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

— Matt Groening

“The problem is that when you’re not fighting for survival, it’s easy to stop making decisions and fall into the trap of thinking you…

— Ben Ryder Howe

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.

— Anna Quindlen

“Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful and so…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

— Lionel Barber

“In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels. The killing…

— Echo and the Bunnymen

The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be…

— Jessica Valenti