Art Quote by John Dewey Download Open image “Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.” — John Dewey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Desire Heart Memory Reality Time True artist
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future. — John Elkann Copy Share Image
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. — Maurice Baring Copy Share Image
“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right and behalf… These traits stand in themselves on precisely the same level as colours, sounds, qualities of contact, taste and smell. Any criterion that finds the latter to be ultimate and "hard" data will, impartially applied,… — John Dewey Copy Share
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social… — John Dewey Copy Share
Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples… — John Dewey Copy Share
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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