Nagai Sōkichi (Kafu Nagai) Quotes
Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
Nagai Sōkichi
Quotes to Explore
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
Pat Mastelotto
Mr. Mister
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
Zainab Salbi
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
Macaulay Culkin
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
Jack Levine
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Oscar Wilde
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Vincent Canby
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
Hans Haacke
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
Kaley Cuoco
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
Ian Mckellen
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Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
Friedrich Schiller
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I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.
Ai Weiwei
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Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.
Brian Tyree Henry
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The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.
William James
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Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
Nagai Sōkichi
