Art Quote by Brendan Gill Download Open image “Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.” — Brendan Gill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Graves Life Notable Obscenity Peril
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not toexpressions of its own… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden… — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Better take a good look at your own lives before you go preaching to me your definitions of obscenity. — The Ramones Copy Share Image
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in. — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums,… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
