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Ludwig Van Beethoven photo

“The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Conversations (March 1820)

Conor McGregor photo

“One thing about martial arts: People can say this fight game is dangerous and its brutal but my mind is strong. I'm fit in body and mind and that's something that not a lot of other careers can give to a person.”

Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer

Setanta Sports interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZQw3Dh0K0 (September 2014) <br class="br">2010s, 2014

W.E.B. Du Bois photo

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment..

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W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer

Source: Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays

Daniel Radcliffe photo

“(on way to relax) “I just like to lock my self in a small room and listen to music and watch films all day!””

Daniel Radcliffe (1989) English actor

http://dan-radcliffe.net/index.php/information/facts-favorites/

Anne Rice photo

“If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Armand

Source: The Vampire Armand

Marcel Duchamp photo

“What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.”

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor

1951 - 1968, The Creative Act', 1957
Context: I want to clarify our understanding of the word 'art' – to be sure, without an attempt to a definition. What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.
Therefore, when I refer to 'art coefficient', it will be understood that I refer not only to great art, but I am trying to describe the subjective mechanism which produces art in a raw state – 'à l'état brute' – bad, good or indifferent.

Taraneh Javanbakht photo

“Science, philosophy, literature and art do not have any value if the ones who are active in these fields keep silence about the executions.”

Taraneh Javanbakht (1974) Iranian scientist, faculty, poet, translator, playwright and writer

Source: Gooyanews website, 2015 http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2016/03/209463.php

Kathryn D. Sullivan photo

“I have always loved science museums in particular—the interactive hands-on museums ... They just exude creativity.”

Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951) American geologist and NASA astronaut

Kathryn D. Sullivan (2020) cited in &quot; What We Lose When We Lose Museums https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/education/what-we-lose-when-we-lose-museums&quot; on IEEE Spectrum, 9 November 2020.

Andrew Biersack photo

“Live your life, listen to your music way to loud, be crazy and as different as you want to be and always remember you are not alone.”

Andrew Biersack (1990) American singer-songwriter

M. S. Subbulakshmi photo

“She incandesced as she sang. Her singing voice employed more than the process of phonation, more than the scope of the larynx.”

M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916–2004) singer,Carnatic vocalist

Gopal Gandhi in his book of "A Certain Age: Twenty Life Sketches", page=166
About M.S.

M. S. Subbulakshmi photo

“The singing legend lives on her suprabathams (morning prayer songs) and w:bhajansbhajans.”

M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916–2004) singer,Carnatic vocalist

Quoted in Ode to a Nightingale in "The Complete Guide to Functional Writing in English}, pages= 11-12
About M.S.

Patti Smith photo

“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Michael Faraday photo

“A man who makes assertions, or draws conclusions, regarding any given case, ought to be competent to investigate it. He has no right to throw the onus on others, declaring it their duly to prove him right or wrong. His duty is to demonstrate the truth of that which he asserts, or to cease from asserting. The men he calls upon to consider and judge have enough to do with themselves, in the examination, correction, or verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.”

Michael Faraday book Experimental researches in chemistry and physics

&quot;Observations on Mental Education&quot; (May 6, 1854) a lecture before His Royal Highness The Prince Consort and the Members of the Royal Institution, Lectures on Education (1855) as quoted in Faraday&#x27;s Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (1859) p. 486. https://books.google.com/books?id=AUwNAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA486

Chester W. Nimitz photo

“A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder.”

Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966) United States Navy fleet admiral

Remarks to the Society of Sponsors, U.S. Navy, 13 February 1940

Frederick Douglass photo

“I am sometimes asked 'How are your people getting along at the South?' I am at a loss sometimes to know to whom they refer. Who are my people at the South? I am in a position to speak more impartially, perhaps, than any man in this room as regards the merits of the two races, for I occupy a middle position… It would be as appropriate to ask, ’How are the white people of the South getting along?’ as to ask how the colored people are getting along. The two should go together: one cannot get along without the other… Men ask me if I don’t think that the condition of the freedmen is hopeless. I tell them ’Never!’ I have seen too much progress.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Speech in Boston http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/ (22 May)

Zafar Mirzo photo

“All miracles are just gaps in science.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Zafar Mirzo photo

“Life is generous and peaceful when it is proud of its science.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Paul Sérusier photo

“Brother Nabi - to a philosophical letter [he received from Denis ] a philosophical answer... [but] first of all, forgive the incoherence of my last letter. I am feeling remorsed about what I told you about Gauguin. There is no humbug about him, not, at any rate, with respect to those he knows are capable of understanding him. I have lived with him for the past fifteen days in the closest association [in Pont-Aven]. We share a room. I have told him what I dislike about his work; what I said can be regarded as a sally against the ingrained habits of contemporary painting. But let's go back to our philosophy....(a:) Immutable principles exist in art. There is a science, namely aesthetics, that teaches them. Today this science is dead. It was alive in the days of the beatific primitives…”

Paul Sérusier (1864–1927) French painter

Source: from: 'A letter to Maurice Denis, p. 237