Aristotle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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My brother and I were brought up outdoors. We appreciate the countryside; we appreciate nature and everything about it.
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Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.
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When you're 250 pounds, you can push more people around, but you can't move as fast or jump as high.
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
