Art Quote by Nicholas G. Carr

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

— Albert Bandura

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,

— Leonard Baskin

We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In reality, our…

— Gerald May

“The human yearning for innocent pastime is a pathetic thing, come to think about it. It shows what a desperately grim thing life has…

— Christopher Morley

“One recalls John Updike’s argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.”

— Martin Amis

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and…

— Antonio Gramsci

Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that…

— Herman Melville

“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is…

— G.K. Chesterton

all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The most abstract truth is the most practical.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs…

— Ben Wheatley