Earnestness Quote by Grayson Perry Download Open image “For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.” — Grayson Perry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earnestness Englishman Greatest Me
Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah,… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I’LL TAKE an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“Because I am a transvestite, people often assume that this gives me a special insight into the opposite gender. But this is rubbish: how… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
We have this idea that seriousness is of higher value. But surely there is more human pleasure and delight in time spent with humour… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their work and… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but without dumbing… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want - museum quality.… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Some people will have working-class, front-room grandma taste that is better than other people's. I went to stately homes that are a bit duff,… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that inoculates you… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
You don't work in a vacuum. If you're a visual artist you work in a visual culture. If you're a pop musician you listen… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I was very excited when the Holburne Museum proposed a show of my ceramics from the 80s and early 90s as it would also… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
My tapestries are woven on a computer-controlled loom. I design them on Photoshop. I recently did some digitally-routed woodcuts because I wanted the woodcut… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ...… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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