"Art, we are told, is a criterion of……" — Ilka Chase
"Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure."
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Ilka Chase
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13 Quotes by Ilka Chase
Ilka Chase has 13 quotes on this site.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest…
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To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under…
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Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with…
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Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.
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I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all,…
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
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You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men…
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had…
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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…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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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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