After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades -… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use -… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes… — Irving Sandler Copy Share Image
Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
I think now because of this whole social media thing, people obviously felt these things [about cultural appropriation] before, and they comment… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of… — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“The claimed legitimizing devices of political consent or personal labour served only to obscure the unjustifiable seizure of land from the common… — Peter Vallentyne Copy Share Image
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no… — Chris Eyre Copy Share Image
We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“The postmodern notion of "appropriation" is not a good fit. In New Mexico, the "indigenous" is a syncretic fusion of Native American… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa. — Jain Copy Share Image
If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn… — John J. Rooney Copy Share Image
Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
I think one big thing with food and race that is a hot topic is cultural appropriation. — Sohla El-Waylly Copy Share Image
“Would you still want to travel to that country if you could not take a camera with you --- a question of… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein. — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
We all are influenced by things and copy things, but often where there is a certain level of copying, only the surface… — Jason Fulford Copy Share Image
I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It's a philosophy, and it's got its own… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when imitation equalled flattery. What happens today, is essentially an entire generation looking outward - not for inspiration,… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Appropriation is a fact of life; no point in complaining about it. But if that's the way the game's being played, let's… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality.… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Anyone should be able to express themselves in any context. Obviously, there are arguments against appropriation, but it's one thing when someone… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image