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Artful Quotes (page 126)

It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled. Aldous Huxley
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination..."
And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation. J. R. R. Tolkien
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety."
We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety. Nathaniel Hawthorne
What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself. Willa Cather
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy..."
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us. Jorge Luis Borges
Uh, hey, I got a idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work, and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day. How's that? Joss Whedon
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Neil Gaiman
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. Benjamin Rush
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoevsky
All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs. Hunter S. Thompson
His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying. Suzanne Collins
C. S. Lewis quote: "faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your..."
faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances. C. S. Lewis
William Golding quote: "I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless."
I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless. William Golding
If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. Madeleine L'Engle
John Gardner quote: "Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most..."
Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign John Gardner

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