Joshua Reynolds Quotes
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.Joshua Reynolds
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
F. Murray Abraham -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
Sam Yagan -
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jackie Kennedy -
I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
Cara Buono
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
Bear Grylls -
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
Carl Bernstein -
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.
Florence Kelley -
The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.
Naftali Bennett -
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
Damien Hirst -
Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
Sam Kean
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It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
Daniel Alarcon -
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso -
I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
Flume -
If she chuses to set free one or two of my slaves she is to have full power to do so.
Patrick Henry -
The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art.
Aaron Copland -
Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
Christo -
I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
Barbara Delinsky -
Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
Maimonides -
If we are to survive, we must not accept the official indoctrination of the purpose of nuclear 'power' stations, radiation health risks, the 'need' for further nuclear weapons and the reality of nuclear war.
Martin Ryle -
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Eva Burrows -
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.
Joshua Reynolds