"In art, interest must be centred on the…" — Swami Vivekananda

"In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme."

— Swami Vivekananda

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1,363 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

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The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman…
Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and…
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship…
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot…
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty -…
Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen…
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians…
Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.
Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with…
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that…

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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
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
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
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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