Aim Quotes

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The artistâ€™s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist. — Sol LeWitt
Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly. — Michelangelo
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims,… — Vladimir Kramnik
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. — Leon Krier
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The… — Orison Swett Marden
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these… — Antonio Gramsci
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike… — Theodor Adorno
I hope everyone will feel good about supporting a worthy cause that helps educate people and saves lives while wearing a cool looking shirt that… — Dean Haspiel
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []… — William Faulkner
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it… — Johannes Kepler
Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator. — Ray Kroc
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace
We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is… — H. Burke Peterson
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate… — Barbara Ehrenreich
What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution… — Margaret Heffernan
The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with… — Jerry Bridges

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