Immanuel Kant Quotes
Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
Immanuel Kant
Quotes to Explore
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
Odette Annable
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken
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So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine.
Franklin Raines
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I've read a lot of Terry Pratchett's stuff, probably from when I was, like, 14.
Colin Morgan
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The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.
Whitney Chadwick
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It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.
Antony Johnston
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Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.
William D. Hoard
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Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
Immanuel Kant
