Art Quote by Arthur C. Danto

“Realism is a religion for rich men, the poor are content with fantasy.”

— Tamarind

“Wars over lands or resources that later meant nothing. The worst, over religious beliefs, which were nothing more than emotional ideas being systematically forced…

— Michael C. Grumley

“I lack the disposition for realism. . . . as soon as I have managed to put together a suitable number of realistic people…

— Torgny Lindgren

“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive…

— Thomas Hardy

“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often…

— Dan Simmons

“Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.”

— Thomas H. Cook

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“The harder I try to realistically portray real things, the more the things that appear in my work have a tendency to become unreal.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Ideas like cosmic justice, collective hope, and national redemption had no meaning for me. The truth was in the everything that came after atheism,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth. No matter…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

“But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. The earthly paradise had been discredited…

— George Orwell