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- The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more…
- Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to…
- In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us…
- Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous…
- In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
- The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV…
- Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear…
- Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
- Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads…
- Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and…
- To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded,…
- Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.
- Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
- Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved…
- The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
- We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,…
- The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
- The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather…
- Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything…
- The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong