"The role of art is to make a…" — William Saroyan
"The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited."
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117 Quotes by William Saroyan
William Saroyan has 117 quotes on this site.
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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
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I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at…
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How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English…
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The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little…
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My work is writing, but my real work is being.
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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all…
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People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
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Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason…
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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is…
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More Art Quotes
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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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