Emile Zola Quotes
Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
Quotes to Explore
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!
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Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
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We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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I've read the books. God is not a moderate. There's no place in the books where God says, 'You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.'
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In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
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If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
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If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
