What is art but the denial of life?

The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the…

— Joanna Russ

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their…

— Emma Goldman

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

— Germaine Greer

“life of strict denial is no life at all.”

— Julie Corbin

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Security is the denial of life

— Germaine Greer

“To be a Taoist, one need not engage in fanatical denial of any part of life, nor does one need to leave family and…

— Ming-Dao Deng

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should…

— Emma Goldman

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art is nothing; it's a way.

— Elbert Hubbard

Art is art when it is appreciated by someone.

— Isao Tomita

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s…

— Paul Copan

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

— Susan Glaspell

A mistake doesnt make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one.

— Vikrant Parsai

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past…

— Chuck Palahniuk