Eudora Welty Quotes

Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

Eudora Welty

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• I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Country
  • Society
  • Gay

• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Know
  • Care

• We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • People
  • Country
  • Want

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Done
  • Art

• We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Work
  • Art
  • Ocean

• Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Country
  • Fighting
  • Name

• It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Running
  • Successful

• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Art
  • Business
  • Creative

• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Country
  • America
  • Yourself

• We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Art
  • House

• Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Constitution

• I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Work
  • Art
  • Guilty

• Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Country
  • Political
  • Plan

• India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Help
  • Words

• The country does not function with sharpness, it functions according to the constitution, and it will continue to function according to constitutional integrity. Sharpness is for elections only, not for running the country.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Running
  • Integrity

• It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

  

  Erle Stanley Gardner
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Fiction

• The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Want
  • Competition

• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Acting
  • Story

• Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • School
  • Literature

• Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Country
  • Art
  • Individual