Ambition Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image “It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Art Ends Gains Men Motivation Said They said
It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The erotic arts have the same goal as religion; to prevent men from acting like beasts.” — K. Ford K Copy Share Image
I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
“And he did what women around the world loved him for, over and above his money: he fucked like an artist; with natural talent,… — C.C. Gibbs Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other way around:… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art]… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
“For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“I identified historical hierarchical division of the arts into fine arts and craft as a major force in the marginalisation of women's work.” — Rozsika Parker Copy Share Image
“the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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