"Culture is the arts elevated to a set…" — Thomas Wolfe
"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
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49 Quotes by Thomas Wolfe
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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field…
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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able…
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness,…
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
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America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only…
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Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a…
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious…
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...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say…
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Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is…
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What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was…
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It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much…
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More Art Quotes
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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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