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How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the…
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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the…
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The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at…
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I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and…
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I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
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Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
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When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither…
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My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the…
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I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so…
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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German…
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My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend…
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I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
— John Selden
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or…
— Edward Hoagland
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no,…
— Robin Williams
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Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not…
— J C Ryle
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but…
— M. Scott Peck
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It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
— Madame Roland
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Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The…
— George Washington
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Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for…
— Chrysippus
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Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
— Duke of Wellington
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle,…
— Gautama Buddha
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Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people…
— Gautama Buddha
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