Clarence H. Burns famous quotes

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Art #History Repeats Itself #Repeating History

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Death #Men #Dying

It is often easier to learn from the mistakes of others than from our own.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Mistake #Errors #Easier

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Failure #Knowing #Painful

A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Friendship #Friends #Men

Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Men #Yesterday #Progress

The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Powerful #Men #Rivers

At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Dream #Reality #Politics

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Respect #Men #Gains

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

History repeats itself and that’s just how it goes,