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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find…
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point…
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We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to…
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it,…
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had…
— Igor Stravinsky
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It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…
— Stevie Nicks
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The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very…
— Clive Barker
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In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,…
— Arthur Koestler
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I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,…
— Lebbeus Woods
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
— Ralph Ellison
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When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.
— Isaac Mizrahi
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To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
— Pablo Picasso
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It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote…
— Stevie Nicks
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I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out…
— John Berryman
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