Elie Faure Quotes

The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.

Elie Faure

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• I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Years
  • Face
  • Scare

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Old
  • Rules

• It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Know
  • Alive
  • Legacy

• Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Education
  • Support
  • Learning

• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Will
  • Despair
  • Imperfection

• As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Great
  • Think
  • Inspire

• The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Style
  • Look
  • Shaving

• Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Time
  • Election

• He who frames the question wins the debate.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Question
  • Debate
  • Frames

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• (Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) 'Nightmarish hangover style' (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music
  • Style
  • Hangover

• Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Shopping

• I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

  

  Dean Haglund
  • School
  • Theatre

• I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • Up

• A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Time

• Modern culture is a tremendous force.

  

  John Gresham Machen
  • Culture

• What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

  

  Antony Flew
  • God
  • Existence
  • Occur

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.

  

  Elie Faure
  • History
  • Artist
  • Goals