Art Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get it out…

— Neil Gaiman

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

— David Foster Wallace

Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we…

— Jonathan Sacks

It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when…

— Jacques Ellul

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an…

— Lewis Mumford

My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me,…

— Guillermo del Toro

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

— Jill Stein

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited…

— Maria Montessori

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At…

— Kofi Annan

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

— Crystal Reed

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

— Chinua Achebe

[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

— Ulrike Meinhof