"I am not a specialist but a general……" — Theodore Bikel
"I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts."
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57 Quotes by Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel has 57 quotes on this site.
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by…
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We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
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I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that…
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and…
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read,…
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More Art Quotes
This quote is filed under Art Quotes,
one of 14,657 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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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