Bela Bartok Quotes
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Bela Bartok
Quotes to Explore
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz
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When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
Naoto Kan
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
Raekwon
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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
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It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.
Erica Jong
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Going to college made me realize you have to have real spaces of privacy, and you have to establish those early.
Cole Sprouse
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Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit.
Epictetus
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It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Edward Gibbon
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I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.
Ben Foster
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Bela Bartok
