Art Quote by William T. Vollmann Download Open image ““We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!”” — William T. Vollmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Community
“I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are today many Communists in America. They are everywhere -- in factories, offices, butcher stores, on street corners, in private businesses. And each… — J. Howard McGrath Copy Share Image
“So the Communist Party has shown the world that only force will be able to move it. The people are supposed to be intimidated… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts” — Taha Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Some of you might go out and kill Communists, but that is no longer a fashionable thing to do. And you wouldn’t be killing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to be an anti-Communist and it is not possible to be a Communist.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often used for… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore. — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
“Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“A treble clef, for example, resembles a Muscovite or Leningrader in a bulky hooded parka. A bass clef bends as simply and painfully as… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“The shortest man, codenamed RIMSKY, said to me that freedom means understanding our place within the laws of history; we are more free when… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image