Aim Quotes

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My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. — Andrew Wyeth
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive… — Ingmar Bergman
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more… — Gustave Courbet
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living… — Gustave Courbet
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall… — Philip Sidney
We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to… — Nathaniel Cotton
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he… — Northrop Frye
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the… — Lord David Cecil
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of… — James F. Cooper
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of… — Edward Weston
The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes. — Marion Milner
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves. — Roger Scruton
Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects. — Tim Ferriss
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand,… — Eduard Hanslick
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and… — Wassily Kandinsky
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim. — Wassily Kandinsky
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its… — Steven Pressfield
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain… — Herbert Read
Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by… — B. H. Liddell Hart
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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