Joshua Reynolds Quotes
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.
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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.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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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!'
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I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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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.
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The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.
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The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
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Exposure to fields like design to technology and from art to psychology gave me a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.
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Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy.
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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.
