Franz Liszt Quotes
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Franz Liszt
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Hans Hofmann
Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?
Walter Bagehot
We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything.
Carl Andre
There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.
Malcolm Lowry
The smallest natural point is larger than all mathematical points, and this is proved because the natural point has continuity, and any thing that is continuous is infinitely divisible; but the mathematical point is indivisible because it has no size.
Leonardo da Vinci
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Augustus Hare
There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.
Barbara Mikulski
And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
James MacArthur
There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
Anil Kapoor
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
John Maynard Keynes
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Franz Liszt
