"Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance."

-- Peggy Phelan

#Witty Quotes #Art Quotes #Assessment Quotes

“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”
“The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.”
“The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.”
“You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.”
“Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness...”
“That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.”

Source : Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919). “The Physical basis of heredity”
“What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?”

Source : "Rep. Weiner Says Medicare Is Holding Down Costs Better Than Private Plans". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2009.
“It's such a liability to love another person.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.213, Hachette UK

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