Ernst Fuchs Quotes

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

Ernst Fuchs

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• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

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• My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

  

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• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

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• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

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• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

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• Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

  

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• Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

  

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• With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

  

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• I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

  

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• The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

  

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• It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

  

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• In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.

  

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• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

  

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• The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.

  

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• I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.

  

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• In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.

  

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• Human beings have always been mythmakers.

  

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• The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

  

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• No animal up a tree can initiate a culture.

  

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• I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

  

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• I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

  

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• Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.

  

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• I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

  

  Ernst Fuchs
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Culture