Art Quote by Eric Hoffer

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence…

— Erich Fromm

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

— Paul Valery

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

— Miuccia Prada

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's…

— Franz Liszt

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in…

— Eric Hoffer

[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision…

— Eric Hoffer

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly…

— Eric Hoffer

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of…

— Albert Einstein

“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument…

— Anonymous

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

— Charles Baudelaire

If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship…

— Maximus the Confessor

Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this…

— Alvaro Siza Vieira

The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow…

— Paulo Coelho

Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent,…

— Frederick Lenz

You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day…

— Winifred Holtby