Argument Quote by Rebecca West Download Open image “Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.” — Rebecca West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Art Artist
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.… — Plato Copy Share Image
As I have always said, an artist's existence and identity are only because of the audience. — Rubina Dilaik Copy Share Image
Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art. — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
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