„Politics is a great art. It succeeds at convincing the people that they have to pay for what has been stolen from them.“
— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
Quotes about art
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„In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.“
— Pauline Kael American film critic 1919 - 2001
Newsweek (1973-12-24).
„But then I ask myself, I have never truly known the man whose flank I have led one difficult and ascetic life for. Perhaps he has played with my idealism, taking advantage for dark scopes that he has held hidden within himself. How can I expect to know a man who has never opened his heart to me? Till now, I do not know what he really thought, knew or wanted. I was alone with my thoughts and my suspicions. And now, the veil that covered this statue has fallen to the ground and instead of an art work, a monster has revealed itself. Now we leave to the historians of the future the task of discussing if that statue was therefore a sin from the beginning, or was changed because of the circumstances. I continue to make the same error: I try to think back to his humble origins. But then I remember how many sons of these people have sealed their history with his name.“
— Alfred Jodl German general 1890 - 1946
About Hitler, Nuremberg Trial, March 10, 1946. Quoted in "Hitler: The Man and the Military Leader" by Percy Ernst Schramm.
„Art is not a thing; it is a way.“
— Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915
„Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.“
— Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945
Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci (1895)
Context: Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.
„The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter — it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.“
— Morihei Ueshiba founder of aikido 1883 - 1969
Speaking of a vision of the "Great Spirit of Peace" in 1942, during World War II, as quoted in Adjusting Though Reflex : Romancing Zen (2010) by Rodger Hyodo, p. 76
Context: The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter — it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.
„We do not need to explain how the Aryans entered and settled in the Dravidian country (tira¯vit»a na¯» t»u), and subjugated and oppressed the Dravidians. Nor do we need to explain how before the Aryans entered the Dravidian country, the Dravidian country had a civilization and arts of the highest rank.“
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Tamil politician and social reformer 1879 - 1973
Periyar in Periyar & Pseudohistory Thanthai Periyar EVR http://www.thanthaiperiyar.org/special-pages/pseudohistory/ a pseudohistorical propaganda.
Aryanism
„Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.“
— John W. Gardner American politician 1912 - 2002
Quoted in Matthew M. Radmanesh, Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe, p. 269.
„Because superior non-animal methods are used for this exact training by military and civilian programs around the world, animals are clearly not required to meet your objectives. … I'm sure you agree that our military personnel deserve state-of-the-art training and that our country deserves to be respected for its civilized treatment of animals.“
— Woody Harrelson American actor 1961
Letter that he sent to the Army, against the use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises; full text in "Woody Harrelson Fights Army Tests on Chimps", in Usnews.com (13 September 2011) https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/09/13/woody-harrelson-fights-army-tests-on-chimps.
„The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.“
— Paracelsus Swiss physician and alchemist 1493 - 1541
„To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.“
— Simone de Beauvoir, book The Second Sex
Bk. 2, part 5, Ch. 1: The Married Woman, p. 468
Source: The Second Sex (1949)
„Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire French poet 1880 - 1918
La géométrie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est à l'art de l'écrivain.
Les peintres cubistes (1913), reprinted in Oeuvres en prose complètes (Paris: Gallimard, 1991) vol. 2, p. 11; translation from Lionel Abel (trans.) The Cubist Painters (New York: Wittenborn, 1949) p. 13.
„Our father who art in heaven
Stay there
And we will stay here on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty“
— Jacques Prevért French poet, screenwriter 1900 - 1977
Pater Noster
„To seek in nature the fairest forms and to find the movement which expresses the soul of these forms — this is the art of the dancer.“
— Isadora Duncan American dancer and choreographer 1877 - 1927
As quoted in Modern Dancing and Dancers (1912) by John Ernest Crawford Flitch, p. 105.
Context: To seek in nature the fairest forms and to find the movement which expresses the soul of these forms — this is the art of the dancer. It is from nature alone that the dancer must draw his inspirations, in the same manner as the sculptor, with whom he has so many affinities. Rodin has said: "To produce good sculpture it is not necessary to copy the works of antiquity; it is necessary first of all to regard the works of nature, and to see in those of the classics only the method by which they have interpreted nature." Rodin is right; and in my art I have by no means copied, as has been supposed, the figures of Greek vases, friezes and paintings. From them I have learned to regard nature, and when certain of my movements recall the gestures that are seen in works of art, it is only because, like them, they are drawn from the grand natural source.
My inspiration has been drawn from trees, from waves, from clouds, from the sympathies that exist between passion and the storm, between gentleness and the soft breeze, and the like, and I always endeavour to put into my movements a little of that divine continuity which gives to the whole of nature its beauty and its life.
„The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.“
— Herbert Marcuse German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898 - 1979
„Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.“
— Emile Zola French writer (1840-1902) 1840 - 1902
Source: Le Naturalisme Au Theatre
„I don't take art as seriously as politics.“
— Orson Welles American actor, director, writer and producer 1915 - 1985