Aristotle Quotes
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.Aristotle
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund Burke -
But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
Jack Dee -
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
Candace Camp -
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Federico Garcia Lorca -
That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
Kate Bush -
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
Patricia Polacco -
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Oscar Wilde -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Camille Paglia -
I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
Lady Gaga -
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman
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To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas -
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
Jacob Epstein -
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
Barry McGee -
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
Bat for Lashes -
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock -
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'
Kanye West
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
Don McCullin -
Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America.
Che Guevara -
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell -
Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence.
John Wesley -
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
Confucius -
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle