"Of what use were the arts if they……" — Alfred de Vigny
"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"
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Alfred de Vigny
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42 Quotes by Alfred de Vigny
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy…
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot…
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals…
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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