"The reason I fight for the arts as……" — Harry Chapin
"The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are."
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26 Quotes by Harry Chapin
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Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that…
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All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to…
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We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.
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I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards…
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If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could…
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To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
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Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you won’t even have to tell yourself, because…
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If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something…
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What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the…
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Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.
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Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this…
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I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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